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China Tom Miéville je úspěšný britský autor fantasy, sci-fi a hororu. Rád označuje své dílo jako „weird fiction“ , respektive New Weird, a je předním představitelem takto nazývané volné skupiny autorů, kteří se snaží o oživení žánru, odklon od zavedených komerčních klišé i narušení hranic se science fiction a hororem, které pokládají za umělý výsledek téhož komerčního škatulkování.

Od raného dětství žije v Londýně. V osmnácti letech učil angličtinu v Egyptě, kde vznikl jeho zájem o arabskou kulturu a politiku Blízkého Východu. Vystudoval antropologii na univerzitě v Cambridge a mezinárodní vztahy v Londýně. Strávil také jeden rok na Harvardu.

Je členem největší z britských revolučně-levicových stran, trockistické Socialistické dělnické strany ; ve volbách do britského parlamentu v roce 2001 kandidoval za její koalici Socialist Alliance v tradičně labouristickém obvodě a získal 459 hlasů . Jeho politické názory se odrážejí v jeho díle i teoretických statích o literatuře – proslulá kritika J. R. R. Tolkiena a jeho díla jako reakcionářského; na řadě conů se účastnil bouřlivých panelových diskusí o politice. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. září 1972   •   Další jména تشاينا ميفيل
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China Miéville citáty a výroky

„Pokud člověka mátlo pobývat v Přízrakově, kde ho obklopovali duchové předchozích forem, ocitnout se uvnitř této budovy mu vyrazilo dech.
Zdálo se, jako by se chodba stahovala a zužovala podle kolotání jejích duchů. Stěny byly ověšené osvědčeními a obrazy, které obklopovaly další v přízračné podobě. Kolem světel visely přízraky holých žárovek a složitých lustrů.
"Myslím, že hodím šavli," řekla Deeba.
"To je ti jenom duchno," poznamenal Hemi. "To se spraví.“

China Miéville kniha Un Lun Dun
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China Miéville: Citáty anglicky

“This was the most difficult, the most extraordinary transition. Her body had been a source of shame and disgust; to engage in activities with no purpose at all except to revel in their sheer physicality had first nauseated, then terrified, and finally liberated her.”

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China Miéville kniha Perdido Street Station

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

““She probably used proxies and a cleaner-upper online too, because there was bugger-all of interest in her cache.”
“You have no idea what you’re saying, do you, boss?”
“None at all. I had the techies write it all out phonetically for me.””

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China Miéville kniha The City & the City

Zdroj: The City & the City (2009), Chapter 13 (p. 139)

“Tearfly looked at Bellis curiously, bewildered by her ignorance. She did not care. What was important to her was where she was fleeing from, not where she was, or where she was going.”

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China Miéville kniha The Scar

Part 1 “Channels”, chapter 2 (p. 21)
The Scar (2002)

“Now what are we looking at right here? What’s bang in the middle? Some people think that’s mathematics there. Fine. But if maths is the study that best allows you to think your way to the centre, what’re the forces you’re investigating? Maths is totally abstract, at one level, square roots of minus one and the like, but the world is nothing if not rigorously mathematical. So this is a way of looking at the world which unifies all the forces: mental, social, physical.”

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China Miéville kniha Perdido Street Station

Zdroj: Perdido Street Station (2000), pp. 145-146

“There are no cats in UnLondon, for example, because they’re not magic and mysterious at all, they’re idiots.”

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China Miéville kniha Un Lun Dun

Zdroj: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 12, “Safe Conduct” (p. 53)

“As far as I'm concerned, some of the best literature of the last hundred years has come out of the genre tradition and of course the best of it challenges expectations just as the best of literary fiction challenges those expectations. But it's not that genre fiction is any more a constraint than mimetic fiction. So I see myself very much as a genre writer. I love the fantastic genres. I see what I'm doing as a development of them but very much a part of them. I never feel that I'm leaving them behind. I try and be as experimental and avant-garde and stretching as I can be but I don't see that as turning my back on the genre at all. Genre has always been able to encompass that.”

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interview with 3am http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2003/feb/interview_china_mieville.html

“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.

“I want to know everything, he says.”

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China Miéville kniha Iron Council

“Anamnesis” (p. 202)
Iron Council (2004)

““Destiny’s bunk,” said the book. “That’s why this lot aren’t the Propheseers anymore.”
“From here on in,” said Mortar, “we’re the Order of Suggesters.””

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China Miéville kniha Un Lun Dun

Zdroj: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 98, “Fit for Heroes” (p. 419)

“It’s the first principle, isn’t it? Whoever’s arguing fiercest for violence is the cop.”

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’Tis the Season (p. 195)
Short Fiction, Looking for Jake (2005)

“In a newsagent’s he picked up a copy of the Standard, and hesitated by the chocolate, looking at the low-fat version he had trained himself to pretend he liked but suddenly hungry for a real bar, which with guilty devil-may-care he took and paid for.”

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China Miéville kniha Go Between

Go Between (p. 129)
Short Fiction, Looking for Jake (2005)

“You make what you see into a window, and you see what you want through it. You make what you see a sort of a door.”

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China Miéville kniha Details

Details (p. 113)
Short Fiction, Looking for Jake (2005)

“Although we revolutionary socialists are always accused of being Utopian, nothing strikes me as more Utopian than the reformist belief that with a bit of tinkering and some good faith, we can systematically improve the world. You have to ask how many decades of broken promises and failed schemes it will take to disprove that hope. Marxism isn’t about saying you’ll get a perfect world: it’s about saying we can get a better world than this one, and it’s hard to imagine, no matter how many mistakes we make, that it could be much worse than the mass starvation, war, oppression, and exploitation we have now. In a world where 30,000 to 40,000 children die of malnutrition daily while grain ships are designed to dump food into the sea if the price dips too low, it’s worth the risk.”

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Interview with Joan Gordon

“We say what happens now. We’re taking control. We’re turning around; we’re heading home. Your orders to proceed…are in-fucking-validated.”

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China Miéville kniha The Scar

Part 7 “The Lookout”, chapter 47 (p. 557)
The Scar (2002)

“How is it appropriate to feel? she thought. Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It’s the surplus of animal fear, it’s never indicated, it’s nothing but itself.”

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China Miéville kniha Keep

Keep (p. 280)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“I told myself I had no choice but in a situation like that the choice you have is how you go about not having a choice.”

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China Miéville kniha The Dusty Hat

The Dusty Hat (p. 211)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“We know the axes on which we should judge, and age has never been one.”

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China Miéville kniha The Dusty Hat

The Dusty Hat (p. 203)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“You were sick of sentimentality, of the moralism, maneuvering, and malice that comes with it.”

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China Miéville kniha The Dusty Hat

The Dusty Hat (p. 202)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Do you even know why you’re angry with me?”

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China Miéville kniha After the Festival

Simone shouted.
“Oh, I’ll figure something out,” Tova said.
After the Festival (p. 196)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“So what’s your alternative?”

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China Miéville kniha The Dusty Hat

people say, as if that’s logic. We don’t have to have an alternative, that’s not how critique works. We may do, and if we do, you’re welcome, but if we don’t that no more invalidates our hate for this, for what is, than does that of a serf for her lord, her flail-backed insistence that this must end, whether or not she accompanies it with a blueprint for free wage labour. Than does the millennially paced rage of the steepening shelf of the benthic plain for a system imposed by the cruelest and most crass hydrothermal vent, if that anemone-crusted angle of descent does not propose a submerged lake of black salt.
The Dusty Hat (p. 215)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Abomination from one perspective, it was advertising copy from another.”

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China Miéville kniha The 9th Technique

The 9th Technique (p. 102)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Lists make magic, the rhythm of itemized words: you do not list ten techniques, numbered and chantable, in austere prose appropriate for some early-millennium rebooted Book of Thoth, and not know that you have written an incantation.”

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China Miéville kniha The 9th Technique

The 9th Technique (p. 102)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“They think I’m old-fashioned? Is being against racism and hatred old-fashioned? OK, I’m old-fashioned.”

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China Miéville kniha The Junket

The Junket (p. 320)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Metamorphosis is death. Inside a pupa larval flesh breaks down utterly, as if in chemical spill. Eyes do not become other eyes nor mouthparts mouths. All parts are lost in a reconfiguring slop, as absolutely formless as a salted slug, that ex liquid nihilo self-organizes into a quite other animal. A cocoon is not a transformation pod but an execution chamber, one that doubles as a birthplace, and is parsimonious with matter.”

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China Miéville kniha The 9th Technique

The 9th Technique (p. 104)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Across the globe, in dark places of the earth, secret lairs were rarely caves of monsters or marvels but markets. Shops. The worst-kept secret in circulation was that certain activities invested items in their proximity with certain affects, effects, and powers, and made them hugely valuable. And that thus it was imperative that they be sold. That, certainly, had been the case for as long as there had been people and things, but there were always fluctuations. The occult economies of charged items were always jostling.”

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China Miéville kniha The 9th Technique

The 9th Technique (p. 101)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Moral your artistic proclivities are not, nor fitting for a physician, though I won’t deny the skill in them. They are, I will say it, unnatural.”

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China Miéville kniha The Design

The Design (p. 374)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“She knows most of this, to some extent, and she knows she’s depressed, but if knowing the problem was the solution, most patients wouldn’t need us at all.”

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China Miéville kniha Dreaded Outcome

Dreaded Outcome (p. 159)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“It was an unusually hot afternoon. One of those days all slowly ambling bumblebees and honeysuckle and so forth, at which the English countryside, when it puts its mind to it, excels, and quite unlike any summer day anywhere else. Calm and still and lovely, but never without a sense of something impending. The sort of day one misses even as one experiences it.”

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China Miéville kniha The Design

The Design (p. 377)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“What if the chosen one misunderstands what he’s been chosen for?”

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China Miéville kniha The Tain

The Tain (p. 301)
Short Fiction, Looking for Jake (2005)

“You didn’t know, but not knowing is no excuse.”

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China Miéville kniha The Tain

The Tain (p. 254)
Short Fiction, Looking for Jake (2005)