![]() ![]() ![]() The fashioning of intricately conceived parallel worlds plus the recombinant use of popular formulas equals a story-generating method that the 38-year-old Miéville has employed to write eight novels (he has also published short fiction, comics, criticism and a scholarly book based on his doctoral thesis on Marxism and international law). They insist on stories linking them.” To create the necessary narratives, Miéville repurposes genre formulas like a salvage artist, mixing a connoisseur’s respect for recovered materials with heretical joy in putting them to surprising uses. “Unfortunately, you can’t really sell books of monsters to publishers. business for the monsters,” he said in an interview a few years ago. The innovative and protean British writer China Miéville’s declared ambition to write a novel in every genre offers an insight into his powers of invention. ![]()
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