China Miéville: Fantasy

China Miéville is English writer. Explore interesting quotes on fantasy.
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“Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.”

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Children , People , Books , Reading

“Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.”

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Reading

“The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.”

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Problem

“Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.”

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“I refuse to play the wink-wink-nudge-nudge game with readers. I don’t like whimsy because it doesn’t treat the fantastic seriously, and treating the fantastic seriously is one of the best ways of celebrating dialectical human consciousness there is. The one-sided celebration of the ego-driven contextually constrained instrumentally rational (as opposed to rational in a broader sense) is bureaucratic: the one-sided celebration of the subconscious, desire/fantasy driven is at best utopian, at worst sociopathic. The best fantasies—which include sf and horror—are constructed with a careful dialectic between conscious and subconscious.”

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interview with Joan Gordon

Way , Game , Sense

“The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism.”

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interview with 3am

“I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually ‘Yes’.”

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In a panel about his work in Comic Con 2010. Quoted in China Miéville Takes Comic Con http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/08/china-mieville-takes-comic-con.

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