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China Tom Miéville (born 6 September 1972) is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer and academic. He is fond of describing his fiction as "weird fiction" (after early twentieth century pulp and horror writers such as H. P. Lovecraft), and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird.
He is active in left-wing politics as a member of the International Socialist Organization (US), and formerly of the Socialist Workers Party (UK). He has stood for Regent's Park and Kensington North for the Socialist Alliance in the 2001 General election; He published his PhD thesis on Marxism and international law as a book in 2005. He teaches creative writing at Warwick University; in 2012-13, he was Writer-in-Residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Born in Norwich, Miéville was brought up in Willesden, northwest London, and has lived in the city since early childhood. He grew up with his sister Jemima and his mother Claudia, a translator, writer and teacher. His parents separated soon after his birth, and he has said that he "never really knew" his father. By virtue of his mother's birth in New York City, Miéville holds dual American and British citizenship.
Miéville was educated at Oakham School, a co-educational independent school in the historic market town of Oakham in Rutland, for two years. When he was eighteen, in 1990, he lived in Egypt teaching English for a year, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and Middle Eastern politics.
Miéville studied for a BA degree in social anthropology at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 1994, and achieved both a Masters' degree and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 2001. Miéville has also held a Frank Knox fellowship at Harvard University. After becoming dissatisfied with the ability of post-modern theories to explain history and political events, he became a Marxist at university. A book version of his PhD thesis, titled Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law, was published in the United Kingdom in 2005 by Brill in their "Historical Materialism" series, and in the United States in 2006 by Haymarket Books.
Miéville has said he plans to write a novel in every genre. To this end, he has 'constructed an oeuvre' that is indebted to genre styles ranging from classic American Western (in Iron Council) to sea-quest (in The Scar) to detective noir (in The City & the City). Yet Miéville's works all describe worlds or scenarios that are fantastical or supernatural; his work is generally categorized as fantasy. Miéville has listed M. John Harrison, Michael de Larrabeiti, Michael Moorcock, Thomas M. Disch, Charles Williams, Tim Powers, and J. G. Ballard as literary "heroes"; he has also frequently discussed as influences H. P. Lovecraft, Mervyn Peake, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Gene Wolfe. He has said that he would like his novels "to be read for [his imagined city] New Crobuzon as Iain Sinclair does for London."
Miéville played a great deal of Dungeons & Dragons and similar roleplaying games (RPG) in his youth. He attributes his tendency to systematisation of magic and technology to this influence.[citation needed] In his novel Perdido Street Station, he refers to characters interested "only in gold and experience." The February 2007 issue of Dragon Magazine interpreted the world presented in his books according to Dungeons & Dragons rules.
In 2010, Miéville made his first foray into writing for RPGs with a contribution to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game supplement Guide to the River Kingdoms.
Miéville works to move fantasy away from J. R. R. Tolkien's influence, which he criticised as stultifying and reactionary. (He once described Tolkien as "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature." . Miéville has cited as Michael de Larrabeiti's Borrible Trilogy as one of his biggest influences; he wrote an introduction for the trilogy's 2002 reissue. The introduction was eventually left out of the book, but is now available on de Larrabeiti's website. Miéville is also indebted to Moorcock, having cited his essay "Epic Pooh" as the source upon which he is "riffing" or even simply "cheerleading" in his critique of Tolkien-imitative fantasy.
In Between Equal Rights (2005), his only major political writing, Miéville advocates a revised version of the legal theory of the Russian Marxist Evgeny Pashukanis, as applied to international law. He synthesises ideas drawn from the Critical Legal Studies movement, particularly Martti Koskenniemi, as well as U.S. international legal theorist Myres McDougal. Miéville argues that the form taken by the law, a process of deciding disputes between abstract, formally equal subjects, can only be explained as essentially related to capitalism's system of generalised commodity exchange, which requires participants with equal rights to property.
But, he argues, just as the symmetry of commodity exchange conceals class division and exploitation, the symmetry of law conceals violent power relations. Law is structurally indeterminate as applied to particular cases, and so the interpretation which becomes official is always a matter of force; the stronger of the contesting parties in each legal dispute will ultimately obtain the sanction of law. Therefore, he states: "The attempt to replace war and inequality with law is not merely utopian but is precisely self-defeating. A world structured around international law cannot but be one of imperialist violence. The chaotic and bloody world around us is the rule of law."
Miéville is a member of the International Socialist Organization (US) and, until March 13, 2013, also a member of the Socialist Workers Party (UK). He stood unsuccessfully for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the 2001 general election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance, gaining 459 votes, i.e. 1.2%, in Regent's Park and Kensington North, a Labour constituency.
In January 2013, he emerged as a critic of the SWP's leadership and in March resigned over the party's handling of a serious internal dispute involving possible criminal activity.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/33918.China_Mi_ville |
New Crobuzon series
China Mieville - Perdido Street Station (read by John Lee)
China Mieville - The Scar (read by Damian Lynch)
China Mieville - Iron Council (read by Damian Lynch)
Other
China Mieville - Un Lun Dun (read by Patricia Kilgarriff)
China Mieville - The City And The City (read by John Lee)
China Mieville - Kraken (read by John Lee)
China Mieville - Embassytown (read by Susan Duerden)
China Mieville - Railsea (read by Jonathan Cowley)
China Mieville - Looking For Jake (read by Jonathan Cowley, Enn Reitel, Gildart Jackson, Peter Altschuler, Robin Sachs, Bruce Mann, Dominic Burgess and Steve West)
Code:
New Crobuzon series
http://rapidgator.net/file/15d095fbda05854fd6d84b4c01326634/Perdido_Street_Station.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/db45c484eb92de39d8fb1bf3402ef472/The_Scar.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/415498d7f960dc112a0324c7a9e5ae64/Iron_Council.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/4b405368068262a5f1992d07886d1bad/Un_Lun_Dun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1aeab0b286381ec9b948e3c67a4b8407/The_City_And_The_City.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/057054554c272f2473fa6e41b959b27a/The_City_And_The_City.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fa0c4acdd1bcbc23fd0fa2888e92dfff/Kraken.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6384e1090018645a691e784480f5624f/Embassytown.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/690ba0e7d26f8523a2aebf472e97e9e6/Embassytown.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c3dc4bb8c0a549805b7724e585e1565d/Railsea.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/64b82857fb4769c3bf96714eb6774326/Looking_For_Jake.rar.html |
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