The China Mieville special! China visited us during his Melbourne Writers Festival trip this year. A fascinating purveyor of "weird fiction", Mieville bring together several different genres in his work. Misha Adair drilled China for Yartz and Yartzlovers.
He belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird who consciously attempt to move fantasy away from commercial, genre clichés of Tolkien epigones. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party. He has stood for the House of Commons for the Socialist Alliance, and published a book on Marxism and international law. He teaches creative writing at Warwick University.
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