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Biography China Tom Mieville (born September 6, 1972) is a British writer of fantastic fiction. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" (after early 20th century pulp and horror writers such as H.P. Lovecraft), and belongs to a loose group of writers who consciously attempt to move the fantasy genre away from the realms of Tolkienesque clich�. Mieville was born in London, England, where he currently lives. When he was eighteen, he lived and taught English in Egypt, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and Middle Eastern politics. Mieville has a B.A. in social anthropology from Cambridge and a master's with distinction and PhD from the London School of Economics. He stood unsuccessfully for the British House of Commons in the 2001 General Election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance. He is a member of the British Socialist Workers Party, and his left-wing politics colour his writing (they are particularly evident in Iron Council, his fourth novel).

His first novel, King Rat, was nominated for both an International Horror Guild and Bram Stoker awards. Perdido Street Station won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy awards.

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Bibliography

 

Novels and novellas

King Rat (1998)
Perdido Street Station (2000)
The Scar (2002)
The Tain (2002)
Iron Council (2004)
Un Lun Dun (2007)
The City & the City (15 May 2009)

Short fiction

"Highway Sixty One Revisited" (in Young Words, 1986)
"Looking for Jake" (in Neonlit Vol. 1, edited by Nicholas Royle, 1999)
"Different Skies" (in Brit-pulp!, edited by Tony White, 1999)
"An End to Hunger" (in Book of Internet Stories, edited by Maxim Jakubowski, 2000)
"Details" (in The Children of Cthulhu, edited by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams, 2002)
"Familiar" (in Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists, edited by Peter Straub, 2002)
"Buscard's Murrain" (in The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts, 2003)
"Reports of Certain Events in London" (in McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, edited by Michael Chabon, 2004)
"A Room of One's Own" (in Mike Mignola's Hellboy: Oddest Jobs, edited by Christopher Golden, 2008)
Hellblazer #250, DC Vertigo 2008
"Jack" (in The New Weird, 2008)

Collections

Looking for Jake (collection, 2005)

Nonfiction

"At the Mountains of Madness: An Introduction", 2005.
Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law, 2005.
"First Men in the Moon: An Introduction", 2005
"Floating Utopias: Freedom and Unfreedom of the Seas," in Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk. New York: The New Press, 2007.
"M.R. James and the Quantum Vampire: Weird; Hauntological: Versus and/or and and/or or?", Collapse, 2008[16]
"The Borribles: An Introduction", 2001

Awards

His first novel, King Rat, was nominated for both an International Horror Guild and a Bram Stoker award.
His second novel, Perdido Street Station, won the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2001 British Fantasy Award , and was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus and British Science Fiction awards [10].
His third novel, The Scar, won the 2003 British Fantasy Award and the 2003 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel was nominated for the Hugo, Arthur C. Clarke, World Fantasy, Locus, Philip K. Dick, and British Science Fiction awards ], and received a Philip K. Dick Award special citation.
His fourth novel, Iron Council, won the 2005 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2005 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel , and was nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards
His short story "Reports of Certain Events in London" (featured in the anthology McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories) was nominated for a 2005 World Fantasy Award and tied for the 2005 Locus Award for Best Novelette.
His fifth novel, Un Lun Dun, won the 2008 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book.
He has been a Guest of Honour at multiple science fiction conventions, including Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) in London in March 2008 and Readercon 2006.

 

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