Just back from the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, where China was guest of honor. It's primarily an academic conference with a strong contingent of sf/f/h authors, as well as editors and other industry people in attendance. I was able to get to three of China's events. First, there was his guest of honor speech, which was ( Read more... )

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Hiya, any of you who live in (or near) London might be interested in these!

Some of my thoughts on Embassytown, over on my own LJ. I'd love to discuss the book with anyone.

http://chelseagirl47.livejournal.com/344730.html#cutid1

In addition to the Guardian pieces Pat posted earlier, here are what links I have found to subsequent reviews of Embassytown. Many of them have spoilers, so read at your own risk ( Read more... )

I see China had a new short story in The Guardian last month: 'Covehithe'.

Stolen from here. Very excited as my copy of Embassytown arrived today :)

PanMacMillan has an excerpt from China's forthcoming novel up on their site:

http://www.panmacmillan.com/Extracts/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=An%20exclusive%20chapter%20extract%20from%20Embassytown

I recently wrote a blog post on rereading Perdido Street Station as part of a local steampunk reading group. If anyone's interested, I'd love to hear your thoughts.http://curiousercuriosities.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/rereading-perd…s-of-

I'm wondering if anyone knows how to find out where China Miéville is going to do signings or other appearances.  Since he doesn't have a real website besides his tumblr that I know of, I've never been able to find a reliable list of places he's going to be.  Whenever I hear about him being somewhere, it's generally second-hand information or from ( Read more... )