Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

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• China Mieville:

  I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

• China Mieville:

  I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, v

• China Mieville:

  Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

• China Mieville:

  I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

• China Mieville:

  Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people r

• China Mieville:

  But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their bo

• China Mieville:

  I love it when people want to interpret my books.

• China Mieville:

  I love monsters.

• China Mieville:

  I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

• China Mieville:

  I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.