China Mieville Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

  China Mieville

  Attention, Fiction, Fantasy

  "This much I know". Interview With Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

• Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

  China Mieville

  Squids, Monsters, Giants

• One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Fantasy, Weirdness

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

  China Mieville

  Thinking, Fiction, Science Fiction

  "China Mieville: 'My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give' - interview". Interview with SkellieScar, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2012.

• I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Conventions

• I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Geek, Fantasy

  Interview with Lou Anders, www.believermag.com. April 2005.

• I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

  China Mieville

  Thinking, Interesting, Vision

• The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

  China Mieville

  Wings, Creative, Fantasy

  "The Road to Perdido". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. February 2003.

• No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

  China Mieville

  Sex, Fiction, Prestige

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

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