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His works include:

• Bas-Lag Cycle
  • Perdido Street Station
  • The Scar
  • Iron Council
• The City & the City
• Embassytown
• King Rat
• Kraken
• The Tain
• Un Lun Dun

Tropes associated with China Miéville

• Author Vocabulary Calendar: The Bas-Lag Cycle is considered to be particularly indicative of this.
• Black and Grey Morality: And when it's not:
• Blue and Orange Morality
• Creator Thumbprint: Pretty much his entire oeuvre is one great big twisted love letter to the city of London.
• Deconstructor Fleet
• Eldritch Abomination: Creature from Details.
• Face of a Thug: Look at him! He'd probably give Alan Moore a run for his money on the scariest-looking fantasy writer.
• New Weird
• Purple Prose: 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.
  • Miéville writes in defense of purple prose:
  "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 Purple Prose isn’t necessarily a failure or a mistake, but is 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."
• Steam Punk
• Urban Fantasy: Even works not set on Earth are generally set in a fantasy counterpart of London.