History Creator / ChinaMieville

An English writer born in 1972. China Miéville is best known for his Fantasy work, much of which has won or been nominated for the [[UsefulNotes/ArthurCClarkeAward Arthur C. Clarke Award]] or the UsefulNotes/WorldFantasyAward at some time or another.

He purposefully avoids writing [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien-esque]] fantasy, preferring to [[DeconstructorFleet invent his own sorts of worlds and fantasy creatures]]. This has made him a leading figure in the NewWeird movement. Miéville used to be a huge ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' fan, and occasionally references it in his works.

As well as his prose work, he wrote the comic series ''Dial H'', a DarkerAndEdgier reworking of the ''Comicbook/DialHForHero'' mythos belonging to Creator/DCComics, which got cancelled after 16 issues.

* EldritchAbomination: The creature from "Details".

He had a doctorate in international law from the London School of Economics.

He purposefully avoids writing [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien-esque]] fantasy, preferring to [[DeconstructorFleet invent his own sorts of worlds and fantasy creatures]]. Miéville used to be a huge ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' fan, and occasionally references it in his works.

* AuthorTract: Not [[{{egregious}} egregiously]] so, but ''Iron Council'' could be read as a passionate espousal of his revolutionary socialist political beliefs. Overall, his work usually averts this trope, however; he himself has probably presented the best summary of how his works approach politics:

* ''Literature/LookingForJake''

* ''Literature/ThreeMomentsOfAnExplosion''

* AuthorTract: Not [[{{egregious}} egregiously]] so, but Iron Council could be read as a passionate espousal of his revolutionary socialist political beliefs.

* ''Literature/TheLastDaysofNewParis''

* EldritchAbomination: Creature from "Details".

-->"I think for a lot of people who don’t read pulp growing up, there’s a real surprise that the particular kind of Pulp Modernism of a certain kind of lush PurpleProse isn’t necessarily a failure or a mistake, but is [[JustifiedTrope part of the fabric of the story and what makes it weird]]. There’s a big default notion that “spare,” or “precise” prose is somehow better. I keep insisting to them that while such prose is completely legitimate, it’s in no way intrinsically more accurate, more relevant, or better than lush prose."

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* AuthorTract: Not [[{{egregious}} egregiously]] so, but Iron Council could be read as a passionate espousal of his democratic socialist political beliefs.

* NewWeird

* ''Literature/TheTain''
* ''Literature/ThreeMomentsofAnExplosion''

As well as his prose work, he wrote the comic series ''Dial H'', a DarkerAndEdgier reworking of the ''Comicbook/DialHForHero'' mythos belonging to DCComics, which got cancelled after 16 issues.

An English writer born in 1972. China Miéville is best known for his Fantasy work, much of which has won or been nominated for the [[UsefulNotes/ArthurCClarkeAward Arthur C. Clarke Award]] or the WorldFantasyAward at some time or another.

An English writer born in 1972. China Miéville is best known for his Fantasy work, much of which has won or been nominated for the [[ArthurCClarkeAward Arthur C. Clarke Award]] or the WorldFantasyAward at some time or another.

* [[Literature/{{Bas-LagCycle}} The Bas-Lag Cycle]]

* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: The [[{{Literature/Bas-LagCycle}} Bas-Lag cycle]] is particularly indicted here...

* CreatorThumbprint: Pretty much his entire oeuvre is [[Literature/PerdidoStreetStation one]] [[{{Literature/Kraken}} great]] [[Literature/IronCouncil big]] [[Literature/TheScar twisted]] [[Literature/UnLunDun love]] [[{{Literature/Bas-LagCycle}} letter]] to the city of London.

* [[Literature/{{Bas-LagCycle}}The Bas-Lag Cycle]]

* ''[[Literature/{{Bas-LagCycle}} Bas-Lag Cycle]]''

* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: The ''[[{{Literature/Bas-LagCycle}} Bas-Lag Cycle]]'' is considered to be particularly indicative of this.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: And when it's not:

* EldritchAbomination: Creature from ''Details''.

* PurpleProse: Miéville writes beautiful prose, if a bit purple. There's a fine line between "purple" and "exquisite." He has got a lot less purple recently -- more a pale lilac. At least he's stopped using 'ineluctable' every ten pages.

* UrbanFantasy: Even works not set on Earth are generally set in a fantasy counterpart of [[VictorianLondon London]].

As well as his prose work, he wrote ''Dial H'', a DarkerAndEdgier reworking of the ''Comicbook/DialHForHero'' mythos belonging to DCComics, which got cancelled after 16 issues.

He's currently writing ''Dial H'', a DarkerAndEdgier reworking of the ''Comicbook/DialHForHero'' mythos belonging to DCComics.

* ''Literature/{{Railsea}}''

He purposefully avoids writing [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien-esque]] fantasy, preferring to [[DeconstructorFleet invent his own sorts of worlds and fantasy creatures]]. Miéville used to be a huge DungeonsAndDragons fan, and occasionally references it in his works.

* AuthorTract: Not egregiously so, but Iron Council could be read as a passionate espousal of his democratic socialist political beliefs.

* FaceOfAThug: ''Look'' at him! He'd probably give AlanMoore a run for his money on the scariest-looking fantasy writer.

* VocalDissonance: He may have the FaceOfAThug, but when hearing him speak for the first time your jaw may drop, as he sounds like a an eloquent university professor (which he actually is).

** ''PerdidoStreetStation''

* ''UnLunDun''

* CreatorThumbprint: Pretty much his entire oeuvre is [[PerdidoStreetStation one]] [[{{Literature/Kraken}} great]] [[Literature/IronCouncil big]] [[Literature/TheScar twisted]] [[UnLunDun love]] [[{{Literature/Bas-LagCycle}} letter]] to the city of London.