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China Tom Miéville, né le 6 septembre 1972 à Norwich en Angleterre, est un auteur de romans qui se joue des genres littéraires : science-fiction, horreur, fantastique, roman noir figurent parmi ceux qu'il a délibérément utilisés et mélangés dans ses œuvres à ce jour. Miéville qualifie son travail de « weird fiction » et a été rangé par la critique dans un groupe informel d'auteurs nommé New Weird , rassemblés par leur volonté de faire sortir la littérature de fantasy des clichés imposés par les successeurs de John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

China Miéville cite Michael de Larrabeiti, John Harrison et Mervyn Peake parmi les auteurs qui l'ont influencé. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. septembre 1972   •   Autres noms تشاينا ميفيل
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China Miéville: Citations en anglais

“My Google-fu is strong.”

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China Miéville livre Kraken

Source: Kraken

“For every action, there’s an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers—and one comes true.”

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China Miéville livre The Scar

Part 6 “Morning Walker”, chapter 34 (p. 394)
Source: The Scar (2002)

“Art Nouveau was coil-envy.”

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China Miéville livre Kraken

Kraken

“It is more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?”

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China Miéville livre The City & the City

Source: The City & the City (2009), Chapter 13 (p. 141)

“The other, more nebulous, but very strong influence of RPGs was the weird fetish for systematization, the way everything is reduced to “game stats.” If you take something like Cthulhu in Lovecraft, for example, it is completely incomprehensible and beyond all human categorization. But in the game Call of Cthulhu, you see Cthulhu’s “strength,” “dexterity,” and so on, carefully expressed numerically. There’s something superheroically banalifying about that approach to the fantastic. On one level it misses the point entirely, but I must admit it appeals to me in its application of some weirdly misplaced rigor onto the fantastic: it’s a kind of exaggeratedly precise approach to secondary world creation.”

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China Miéville

interview with Joan Gordon http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/mievilleinterview.htm

“Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war.”

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China Miéville livre Iron Council

Part 4 “The Hainting”, chapter 15 (p. 314)
Iron Council (2004)

“She shouted, “Arms and tongues, Spiral?” and waggled her arms and stuck out her tongue, and the old man crowed and did the same. “He’s for the first, against the second, as I recall,” she said to Ori. “Has he chanted for you? ‘Too much yammer, not enough hammer.’””

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China Miéville livre Iron Council

Part 2 “Returns”, chapter 8 (p. 85)
Iron Council (2004)

“It had some allies. Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it.”

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China Miéville livre Un Lun Dun

Source: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 22, “History Lessons” (p. 90)

“My dad hates umbrellas,” said Deeba, swinging her own. “When it rains he always says the same thing. ‘I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society’s usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.’”

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China Miéville livre Un Lun Dun

Source: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 3, “The Visiting Smoke” (p. 11)

“He tried to grin but it did not go well.”

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China Miéville livre The City & the City

Source: The City & the City (2009), Chapter 28 (p. 297)

““History…” Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. “Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.””

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China Miéville livre Iron Council

Part 4 “The Hainting”, chapter 15 (p. 319)
Iron Council (2004)

“Before the humans came, we didn't speak so much of certain things. Before the humans came, we didn't speak so much. Before the humans came, we didn't speak.”

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China Miéville Embassytown

p 148-149
Embassytown (2011)

“Throw something away and you declare it obsolete.”

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China Miéville livre Un Lun Dun

Source: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 12, “Safe Conduct” (p. 52)

“Andrej’s mind, like any sane human’s … was a constantly convulsing dialectical unity of consciousness and subconsciousness, the battening down and channelling of dreams and desires, the recurring re-creation of the subliminal by the contradictory, the rational-capricious ego. And vice versa. The interaction of levels of consciousness into an unstable and permanently self-renewing whole.”

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China Miéville livre Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 553

“Judah knows the trow will be eradicated and their homes lost to history, but he will not be party to it, and he has tried to stand in its way.”

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China Miéville livre Iron Council

“Anamnesis” (p. 191)
Iron Council (2004)

“She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.”

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China Miéville livre Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 32

“The chief was a thuggish man: nervous, Cutter saw, because he knew he was a mediocrity become by kink of history a ruler.”

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China Miéville livre Iron Council

Part 3 “Wineland”, chapter 12 (p. 130)
Iron Council (2004)

“When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty. We say: A government for need not greed!”

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China Miéville livre Iron Council

“Anamnesis” (p. 222)
Iron Council (2004)

“Neither dust nor light stirred. It was as if time had been bled dry and given up.”

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China Miéville livre The Scar

Part 3 “The Compass Factory”, chapter 20 (p. 241)
The Scar (2002)

“She felt so alien, bowed under culture shock as crippling as migraine.”

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China Miéville livre The Scar

Part 2 “Salt”, chapter 6 (p. 78)
The Scar (2002)

“Lin realized that she was living in an unsustainable realm. It combined sanctimony, decadence, insecurity and snobbery in a weird, neurotic brew. It was parasitic.”

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China Miéville livre Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 188

“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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China Miéville

interview with Joan Gordon

“To take the choice of another … to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to … for all we individuals to have … our choices.”

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China Miéville livre Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 607

“I’m not waiting to die, I don’t believe I’ll die, I am waiting for something else.
To arrive. To understand. To be at my destination.”

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China Miéville livre The Scar

Part 1 “Channels”, Interlude II (p. 65)
The Scar (2002)

“There is no theology so desperate that you can’t find it.”

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China Miéville livre The City & the City

Source: The City & the City (2009), Chapter 4 (p. 38)

“We’re all racing,” he said.
“Yeah, but some of us in the wrong direction.”

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China Miéville livre Iron Council

Part 6 “The Caucus Race”, chapter 20 (p. 364)
Iron Council (2004)

“Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.”

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China Miéville

interview with Joan Gordon

“We have watched mutant creatures crawl from sewers into cold flat starlight and whisper shyly to each other, drawing maps and messages in faecal mud.
I have sat with the wind at my side and seen cruel things, wicked things.
My scars and bonestubs itch. I am forgetting the weight, the sweep, the motion of wings. If I were not garuda I would pray. But I will not obeise myself before arrogant spirits.”

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China Miéville livre Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 51

“I see echoes with lots of books in all my books, some deliberate, some unconscious until later, and as long as that is respectful I think that's great - writing on the shoulders of other writers is a privilege.”

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China Mieville: "My job is not to try to give readers what they want..." http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2012/sep/20/china-mieville-interview, theguardian.com, Thursday 20 September, 2012.

“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

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