http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/china mieville http://io9.com/tag/china mieville Congratulations to Genevieve Valentine, who won the 2012 William L. Crawford Fantasy Award for her novel Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti. This award celebrates the best debut fantasy novel published in the previous year, and the runners up were Erin Morgenstern for The Night Circus, Téa Obreht for The Tiger's Wife, Stina Leicht for Of Blood and Honey, and Ransom Riggs for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. More »
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At one point, Kraken and Embassytown author China Miéville penned a Swamp Thing comic that ended up in the dustbin (he also had written an Iron Man pitch, but that's an entirely different story). More »
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Sarah Hall, author of the Tiptree Award-winning novel Daughters of the North, narrates a fantastic two-part BBC radio series, Cat Women of the Moon, all about "the popular motif in science fiction of an all-women society surviving without men." The first half is more about "relations between the sexes," while the second half is about various weird kinds of reproduction and "the different ways of continuing the human race." Participants include China Mieville, Iain M. Banks and Ursula K. Le Guin. Particularly lovely: the moment where Geoff Ryman confesses, "I've done a lot of male pregnancy." [BBC, thanks Matthew!] More »
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This week sees the release of Colson Whitehead's zombie novel Zone One, and he's been doing a slew of interviews in which he affirms that reading science fiction and comic books (especially H.P. Lovecraft) made him want to be a writer. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5851205&view=rss&microfeed=true If you like the 1980s pop group Duran Duran, you'll also love China Miéville's latest novel, Embassytown. At least, Embassytown is the latest pick from Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon, who writes a passionate (and awesome) defense of reading science fiction: More »
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Yesterday Locus magazine announced the 2011 Locus Award Winners. Here's the full list, and congrats to all the winners and nominees. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5815596&view=rss&microfeed=true The Guardian's book section has been running a slew of interesting and thought-provoking articles about science fiction books, including excerpts of rare interviews with Isaac Asimov and Douglas Adams, great authors choosing their favorite books, and a terrific China Mieville profile. Well worth checking out. More »
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May is a blockbuster month for books, with new releases from China Miéville, John Scalzi and Charlaine Harris, plus Gilded-Age witchcraft and zombie-fighting bloggers. More »
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Embassytown is a breakneck tale of suspense about weird philosophy and a deeply alien culture. It's disturbing and beautiful by turns. And yes - China Miéville's new novel is one of his best. More »
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China Miéville was once tapped to write Swamp Thing for DC, but that never panned out. Similarly, the Kraken author has now revealed that he submitted an Iron Man pitch which paints a less than rosy picture of Tony Stark. More »
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Can't wait to read China Miéville's first foray into hard space opera? Neither can we. So we're thrilled that the first chapter is already available for free online, at Pan MacMillan UK's site. More »
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From the new China Mieville to the latest Cherie Priest, from quantum burglars to reworked fairy tales, here's what you'll be reading this spring. We've picked out the most exciting new books from the next few months' science fiction/fantasy releases. More »
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China Miéville's novel Embassytown is all about communication with an alien race, on a distant planet. So it makes sense that the newly revealed cover shows letters falling on a luminescent cityscape. More »
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Japanese literary darling Haruki Murakami and fantasy author China Mieville have a lot in common: their use of language, their thoughtful creation of a "secondary world," and more. So why don't people read both? Eric Rosenfield wants to know. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5715844&view=rss&microfeed=true The first details are out for China Miéville's next novel Embassytown, out in May, and it sounds fantastic. According to the Library Journal: More »
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The 2010 Hugo Award Winners were presented today at Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention, in Melbourne, Australia, Who were among the big winners? China Miéville, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Moon. More »
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There'll never be a webzine to replace the late, lamented Internet Review of Science Fiction, but a new publication, Salon Futura, comes pretty darn close. The first issue includes smart essays, book reviews, and a heartfelt Satoshi Kon obituary. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5628241&view=rss&microfeed=true If you're looking for some awesome tales of the fantastic to check out in the last days of summer, then the 2010 World Fantasy Award's shortlist has arrived just in time. There are stories of bizarre cities and harrowing adventures. Here's the complete list, via Locus: More »
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I had a chance to sit down with China Miéville to talk about his latest novel, Kraken, as well as his thoughts on nerd pop culture. Turns out he's got some pretty strong opinions about JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon. More »
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China Miéville, author of io9 book club selection The City & The City, is joining us here to answer your questions. He'll be here tomorrow (Friday, 7/30), from 11-12 Pacific Time. Pipe up in comments with your questions. More »
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This month, the io9 book club read China Miéville's Nebula-nominated The City & The City. And today the meeting is in session, so it's time to start discussing! More »
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Mashup novels are all the rage right now, mixing zombies with classic lit or scifi with westerns. Last week at Comic-Con a panel of writers including Scott Westerfeld and Naomi Novik talked about the best and worst of mashup lit. More »
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Just a quick reminder to io9 Book Club readers that this month's pick is The City & The City by China Miéville. Our meeting will begin July 26, so get reading! More »
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Just a quick reminder to io9 Book Club readers that this month's pick is The City & The City by China Miéville. Our meeting will begin July 26, so get reading! More »
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Comic Con's Saturday schedule is up, and it is absolutely gobsmacking. There are dozens of panels, including a discussion with Scott Pilgrim's Bryan Lee O'Malley, a first look at Green Lantern, and Kevin Feige talking Thor and Captain America. More »
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Many of us were left scratching our heads when the New Yorker's list of 20 great writers under 40 included no genre authors whatsoever. Now Britain's Telegraph newspaper has come up with its own list — that includes science fiction. More »
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What happens when you have magic and spaceships? Or gods and mad scientists? Some of the most exciting worlds in science fiction also include fantasy elements — and here are our 12 favorites. More »
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June brings speculative fiction for every taste. Priest returns to the world of Boneshaker, and Miéville offers up a giant-squid epic. And whet your scifi appetite with some adventurous new short stories. More »
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Back in the DCU of the 1980s, Swamp Thing hung with Superman, Sandman met Martian Manhunter, and John Constantine bothered anyone he damn well pleased. This changed with the advent of DC's Vertigo imprint, but things are changing once again. More »
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China Miéville's long-awaited squid epic, Kraken, hits shelves next month. Like his previous novel, The City & The City, it's about an urban landscape that forms its own alternate reality. In Kraken, the city of London is haunted by gods. More »
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China Miéville's detective story The City And The City is well on its way to being the award-winningest novel of the year. But it's not the only great novel about science fiction/fantasy sleuths. Here are 10 other SF detective classics. More »
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China Miéville's foray into crime fiction, The City And The City, has already paid off handsomely. It's garnered the British Science Fiction Association's "best novel" prize, a Nebula nomination... and now, his third Arthur C. Clarke Award. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5526775&view=rss&microfeed=true Locus Magazine announced the finalists for its reader-selected Locus Awards — and the five best science fiction novels of 2009 include three female authors. The winners will be announced during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 25-27, and tickets are still available. Here are the finalists: More »
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A truly great infodump is a work of art. The best science fiction authors can brief you on everything you need to know about their worlds, without making you feel lectured. Here are 20 great examples of the smooth infodump. More »
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China Miéville's indispensible review of J.G. Ballard's newly released complete stories does more than celebrate Ballard, whose influence permeates all types of fiction. He also makes a great argument for why Ballard belongs to science fiction. More »
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Kim Stanley Robinson insisted that Adam Roberts' Yellow Blue Tibia should have won the prestigious Booker Prize, but now that wrong has been somewhat righted, as Roberts' book is one of four finalists for the best-novel British Science Fiction Awards. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5458028&view=rss&microfeed=true "The walls that defined speculative fiction as a genre are quickly tumbling down. They are being demolished from within by writers such as China Miéville and Jon Courtenay Grimwood, and scaled from the outside by the likes of Michael Chabon and Lev Grossman. And they are being ignored altogether by a growing number of writers with the ambition to create great fiction, and the vision to draw equally on genre and literary tradition to achieve that goal. The post-sci-fi era is an exciting one to be reading in." — Damien G. Walter, in the Guardian More »
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Somebody wrote to the Wall Street Journal's book advice column to ask how you go about convincing your 13-year-old nephew to stop reading science fiction. Thank goodness the WSJ's in-house book nerd was smart enough to say: You don't. More »
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A noir light is shining over fantasy — many of the best fantasy books on the shelves right now feature bloody-minded, morally gray protagonists battling their way through rotten cities and bleak landscapes. Here's why noir is truest urban fantasy. More »
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You think your city's leadership is bad? Just look at these 10 stand-out examples of terrible mayors and awful city leaders from science fiction and urban fantasy. They steal, they kill, they won't give the people air! More »
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