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I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.


China Miéville

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CHINA MIéVILLE

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If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Any moment called now is always full of possibles.
CHINA MIéVILLE Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, whic...
CHINA MIéVILLE Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and...
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CHINA MIéVILLE When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking a...
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I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
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CHINA MIéVILLE My Google-fu is strong.
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CHINA MIéVILLE Devils and Nazis don’t work well together.
CHINA MIéVILLE We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how...
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CHINA MIéVILLE How could one not think of the stories we all grew up on, that surely the Ul Qomans grew up on too? ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Same weather over here as back home," I said.
CHINA MIéVILLE And even if you’re right, the CIA paid millions of dollars to men trying to kill goats by staring ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Tutte le note erano come a strati, un palinsesto di interpretazione in progresso. Feci archeologia.
CHINA MIéVILLE «Si riferisce ai loro poteri magici? Vorrei, lo vorrei tanto. Ma anche così questi scavi sono inco...
CHINA MIéVILLE They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.
CHINA MIéVILLE The early years of a Bes (and presumably an Ul Qoman) child are intense learnings of cues. We pick u...
CHINA MIéVILLE ...If she were studying Orciny, and there might be excellent reasons to do so, she'd be doing her do...
CHINA MIéVILLE Volunteering’s an early and strong indication that you’re not suited,” he said.
CHINA MIéVILLE But here’s the problem you’re not addressing. While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of...
CHINA MIéVILLE If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of...
CHINA MIéVILLE …where the two cities are close up they make for interference patterns, harder to read or predict....
CHINA MIéVILLE At the social/political/ juridical, etc., level, the organizing principle was less to do with games ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Like any dissidents they were neurotic archivists. Agree, disagree, show no interest in or obsess ov...
CHINA MIéVILLE His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.
CHINA MIéVILLE Interstiality is a theme that is simultaneously genuinely interesting and potentially quite useful, ...
CHINA MIéVILLE There is no case,” he told her. “There’s a series of random and implausible crises that make n...
CHINA MIéVILLE You cannot train yourself to successfully and sustainedly unsee and unhear — you do them all...
CHINA MIéVILLE From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy...
CHINA MIéVILLE He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger’s pedestrian.
CHINA MIéVILLE Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?
CHINA MIéVILLE Tell me," Bren said. "I thought you'd despaired."
"I did, too."
"What then? Tell me...
CHINA MIéVILLE Oratees are addicts. Strung out on an Ambassador’s Language.
CHINA MIéVILLE Oh, bullshit,” Wyatt said. I blinked. “This isn’t one of those stories, Avice. One moment of c...
CHINA MIéVILLE You’d have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it.
CHINA MIéVILLE The return to anywhere you last visited as a child is difficult, especially when it’s a door. Your...
CHINA MIéVILLE You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.
CHINA MIéVILLE They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, ...
CHINA MIéVILLE The sounds aren’t where the meaning lives. […]

Their language is organised noise, lik...
CHINA MIéVILLE Language is the continuation of coercion by other means."
"Bullshit. It's cooperation." Both th...
CHINA MIéVILLE A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other'...
CHINA MIéVILLE As an immerser I progressed to the ranks I aspired to—those that granted me a certain cachet and i...
CHINA MIéVILLE Its surface sheened with saft that evaporated out from its crystal shielding in threads that degrade...
CHINA MIéVILLE There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Oh, bullshit. This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook of...
CHINA MIéVILLE A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome w...
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CHINA MIéVILLE Some midnight-of-all or other [apocalypse] was predicted every few days or nights. Most came to noth...
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CHINA MIéVILLE Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.
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