I want to see an episode of Doctor Who written by Mieville.
@HereIsMyStuff357 жыл бұрын
China Mieville will break a reader's heart with his beautiful fiction and surreal imagination. Not all of his stuff is great, esp. his short stories have truly disturbing themes. But for sheer grace and fantasy his stuff can't be beat. Seems to be a nice guy, too.
@WanderingWombat5 жыл бұрын
... I now no longer feel like I'm smart enough to write fiction. :D
@sampagano2057 жыл бұрын
This was excellent. Fun to know my favorite of his books are all the ones he'd want in his coffin.
@vollsticks2 жыл бұрын
I can listen to China talk for hours. Kind of like how his books are on the whole utterly "unputdownable". And he's been totally killing it with his recent works...New Paris, This Census Taker...holy crap, so good. As much as I love the Bas-Lag Trilogy, Embassytown, Kraken, Railsea etc, there's something almost pared-down and elegiac about those two novellas...New Paris knocked my tits off, then This Census Taker just blew my head off...strange, timeless and incredibly haunting. It seems like Mieville is allowing much more of a sense of mystery in his work. Whilst I love insurrectionist anarchist gangs led by thaumaturgic bull-helmeted (SPOILIERS) ReMade; scissor-legged spider-gods, monstrous consciousness-eating moths, Uther FUCKING Doul!!!, rogue socialist trains and radical politics within the setting of a totalitarian city-state that literally makes deals with Hell...this "quiet" yet shocking mutation of his writing is fucking dope as fuck. And yet still as shocking. China Meiville is one of the best writers of his generation. In any genre.
@Daybed44484 жыл бұрын
46:25 Good question and excellent answer about socialism in fiction, and socialism in general
@qasimansari75404 жыл бұрын
Not a huge fan of his writing but as a person he's very fascinating and a genuine nice guy. Had the pleasure of meeting him at book signing and he gave me great advice and was really down to earth.
@nikeetaslade27937 жыл бұрын
Such an erudite guy.. Mieville mentions that he gave a keynote the day prior to this discussion. Will that be uploaded as well?
@Mrjoshlyon
7 жыл бұрын
I second this! Would love to watch this if it was recorded :)
@joshuahext9236
5 жыл бұрын
Third-ed
@Altruismisreal272 жыл бұрын
Interesting talk. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis isn’t entirely wrong. The place of language in fueling imagination and shaping our worldview is undeniable. And not all social scientists deny the power of language in shaping our understanding of our environment.
@nab267 Жыл бұрын
Did he say the remade were in the 2nd - 4th books? I there were only 3 Bas-Lag books
@NZAnimeManga
4 ай бұрын
Perdido Street Station (2000), The Scar (2002), and Iron Council (2004) were his 2nd - 4th novels (by publication order). King Rat (1998) was his first, Un Lun Dun (2007) his fifth.
@selfpreservationsociety Жыл бұрын
How middle class
@nikolaidante35715 жыл бұрын
One of the things I don't like about Mieville is he also tries to cover all of his bases. As if he has considered and countered all criticisms before they've been made. It's really quite cowardly not to pin your colours to the mast.
@sosimple35852 жыл бұрын
For such an imaginative writer to call a post-capitalist world 'undepictable' in answer to the question at 46:25, and to meander around the subject so unconvincingly seems...odd. It almost seems like an admission of socialism's inadequacies when it bumps into living human animals.
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I want to see an episode of Doctor Who written by Mieville.
China Mieville will break a reader's heart with his beautiful fiction and surreal imagination. Not all of his stuff is great, esp. his short stories have truly disturbing themes. But for sheer grace and fantasy his stuff can't be beat. Seems to be a nice guy, too.
... I now no longer feel like I'm smart enough to write fiction. :D
This was excellent. Fun to know my favorite of his books are all the ones he'd want in his coffin.
I can listen to China talk for hours. Kind of like how his books are on the whole utterly "unputdownable". And he's been totally killing it with his recent works...New Paris, This Census Taker...holy crap, so good. As much as I love the Bas-Lag Trilogy, Embassytown, Kraken, Railsea etc, there's something almost pared-down and elegiac about those two novellas...New Paris knocked my tits off, then This Census Taker just blew my head off...strange, timeless and incredibly haunting. It seems like Mieville is allowing much more of a sense of mystery in his work. Whilst I love insurrectionist anarchist gangs led by thaumaturgic bull-helmeted (SPOILIERS) ReMade; scissor-legged spider-gods, monstrous consciousness-eating moths, Uther FUCKING Doul!!!, rogue socialist trains and radical politics within the setting of a totalitarian city-state that literally makes deals with Hell...this "quiet" yet shocking mutation of his writing is fucking dope as fuck. And yet still as shocking. China Meiville is one of the best writers of his generation. In any genre.
46:25 Good question and excellent answer about socialism in fiction, and socialism in general
Not a huge fan of his writing but as a person he's very fascinating and a genuine nice guy. Had the pleasure of meeting him at book signing and he gave me great advice and was really down to earth.
Such an erudite guy.. Mieville mentions that he gave a keynote the day prior to this discussion. Will that be uploaded as well?
@Mrjoshlyon
7 жыл бұрын
I second this! Would love to watch this if it was recorded :)
@joshuahext9236
5 жыл бұрын
Third-ed
Interesting talk. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis isn’t entirely wrong. The place of language in fueling imagination and shaping our worldview is undeniable. And not all social scientists deny the power of language in shaping our understanding of our environment.
Did he say the remade were in the 2nd - 4th books? I there were only 3 Bas-Lag books
@NZAnimeManga
4 ай бұрын
Perdido Street Station (2000), The Scar (2002), and Iron Council (2004) were his 2nd - 4th novels (by publication order). King Rat (1998) was his first, Un Lun Dun (2007) his fifth.
How middle class
One of the things I don't like about Mieville is he also tries to cover all of his bases. As if he has considered and countered all criticisms before they've been made. It's really quite cowardly not to pin your colours to the mast.
For such an imaginative writer to call a post-capitalist world 'undepictable' in answer to the question at 46:25, and to meander around the subject so unconvincingly seems...odd. It almost seems like an admission of socialism's inadequacies when it bumps into living human animals.