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China Miéville

(China Tom Miéville)

(b.1972)

China Miéville has lived all his life in London. His first novel, King Rat, received superb reviews and was nominated for fantasy awards, and his second, Perdido Street Station, astonished the literary world with its imaginative power and sheer inventiveness.

Awards: WFA (2010), Hugo (2010), Clarke (2010), BSFA (2009) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children's Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Horror

Series

New Crobuzon
   1. Perdido Street Station (2000)
   2. The Scar (2002)
   3. Iron Council (2004)

Novels

   King Rat (1998)
   Un Lun Dun (2007)
   The City & the City (2009)
   Kraken (2010)
   Embassytown (2011)
   Railsea (2012)
   This Census Taker (2016)
   The Last Days of New Paris (2016)
   The Book of Elsewhere (2024) (with Keanu Reeves)

Collections

   Cities (2003) (with others)
   Breaking Windows (2003) (with others)
   Looking for Jake (2005)
   Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Tain (2002)
'Tis the Season (2011)

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Books containing stories by China Miéville

Out of the Ruins (2021)
The Apocalyptic Anthology
edited by
Preston Grassmann

The Outcast Hours (2019)
edited by
Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin

Head Land (2016)
10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
edited by
Rodge Glass

More books

Awards

	2013 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel : Railsea
	2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : Embassytown
	2011 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel : Kraken
	2010 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : The City & the City
	2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel : The City & the City
	2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel : The City & the City
	2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award : The City & the City
	2009 BSFA Award for Best Novel : The City & the City
	2005 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel : Iron Council
	2005 Arthur C. Clarke Award : Iron Council
	2003 Locus Award for Best Novella : The Tain
	2003 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel : The Scar
	2003 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel : The Scar
	2001 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Perdido Street Station
	2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award : Perdido Street Station

Award nominations

	2017 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee) : This Census Taker
	2017 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : This Census-taker
	2017 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Last Days of New Paris
	2017 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : This Census-taker
	2017 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel (nominee) : The Last Days of New Paris
	2016 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Three Moments of an Explosion
	2013 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Railsea
	2013 British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Railsea
	2013 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : Three Moments of an Explosion
	2013 Andre Norton Award (nominee) : Railsea
	2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Embassytown
	2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Embassytown
	2012 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : Covehithe
	2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Embassytown
	2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Embassytown
	2011 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Embassytown
	2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The City & the City
	2009 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The City & the City
	2006 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Looking for Jake
	2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Reports of Certain Events in London
	2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Iron Council
	2005 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Iron Council
	2005 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Looking for Jake
	2003 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Scar
	2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Scar
	2003 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Tain
	2003 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : The Scar
	2002 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : The Scar
	2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Perdido Street Station
	2002 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Perdido Street Station
	2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : Details
	2002 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Scar
	2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Perdido Street Station
	2001 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Perdido Street Station
	2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : King Rat
	2000 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Perdido Street Station
	1999 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel (nominee) : King Rat

China Miéville recommends

The Planetbreaker's Son (2021)
(Outspoken Authors, book 26)
Nick Mamatas
"The sharpest, funniest, most insightful and political purveyor of post-pulp pleasures going."

Cygnet (2019)
Season Butler
"Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth."

Confessions of the Fox (2018)
Jordy Rosenberg
"Extraordinary and brilliant . . . At once a queer love story, radical counterhistory, and a thrilling page-turner, Confessions of the Fox is a vitally important work of our time."

You Should Come With Me Now (2017)
M John Harrison
"With an austere and deeply moving humanism, M. John Harrison proves what only those crippled by respectability still doubt – that science fiction can be literature, of the very greatest kind."

Deadstock (2007)
(Punktown, book 2)
Jeffrey Thomas
"Jeffrey Thomas has done something wonderful."

Shriek (2006)
(Ambergris, book 2)
Jeff VanderMeer
"Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humour. Ambergris is one of my favourite haunts in fiction."

The Year of Our War (2004)
(Castle, book 1)
Steph Swainston
"Exuberant, incredibly inventive, a blistering debut, and honest-to-god unputdownable."

Wanderers and Islanders (2002)
(Legend of the Land, book 1)
Steve Cockayne
"Steve Cockayne has created something fascinating and strange. It resonates like a sudden memory - one that is intricate, important and moving."

Stranger Things Happen (2001)
Kelly Link
"This small-press short-story collection by a young American writer is a joy - a very tired word, and not one I use lightly. I've not been so moved and affected - and dammit, yes, inspired - by a book for a long time."

The Dark Domain (1992)
Stefan Grabinski
"Early in the last century, this shockingly underrated Polish writer saw the horror that haunted modernity. His ghosts and demons don't inhabit graveyard or ruins, but steam trains, electricity cables, and the rapidly growing cities. The antithesis of nostalgic fantasy."

The Gormenghast Trilogy (1967)
(Gormenghast)
Mervyn Peake
"Somehow this manages to be both rich and austere at the same time - the sense is of vastness, but of unbearable claustrophobia, too. The egregious BBC adaptation turned it into an Augustan costume romp and stripped out all the shadows and all the dust. Philistines."

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964)
Philip K Dick
"It's infuriating to have to choose just one of Dick's works - he is the outstanding figure in SF. In the end I went for Stigmata because I remember how I felt when I put it down. Hollow and beaten. I kept thinking: 'That's it. It's finished. Literature has been finished.'"

Strange Evil (1957)
Jane Gaskell
"The book was written when Gaskell was 14, and though it suffers from all the flaws her youth would lead you to expect, it is a staggering achievement. A fraught fairyland full of sexuality, and containing the most extraordinary baddy in fiction."

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
H G Wells
"Short, cold, economic and totally unrelenting. An utterly terrifying book, Wells's outstanding achievement by far."

Jane Eyre (1847)
Charlotte Brontë
"The greatest work of horror ever. OK, technically there are no monsters or aliens or what-have-you, but there's no way this isn't horror. A book about madness, loneliness, manipulation, class and sex that's more frightening than any tentacled thing Lovecraft could come up with."

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