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{{Infobox writer
| name             = China Miéville
| image            = China_Mieville.jpg
| caption          = Miéville at [[Utopiales]] (2010)
| birth_name       = China Tom Miéville
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1972|9|6}}
| birth_place      = [[Norwich]], [[Norfolk]], England
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| occupation       = Short-story writer, novelist, essayist and comic book author
| period           = 1998–present
| genre            = {{ubli|[[Urban fantasy]]|[[Weird fiction]]|[[Steampunk]]}}
| movement         = [[New Weird]]
| notableworks     = {{ubli|''[[Perdido Street Station]]'' (2000)|''[[The City & the City]]'' (2009)|''October: The Story of the Russian Revolution'' (2017)}}
| website          = {{URL|chinamieville.net}}
| notable_works    = 
| education        = {{ubli|[[Clare College, Cambridge]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])|[[London School of Economics]] ([[PhD]])}}
}}

'''China Tom Miéville''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSL}} ({{IPAc-en|m|i|ˈ|eɪ|v|əl}} {{respell|mee|AY|vəl}}, born 6 September 1972<ref>{{cite journal |first=Joan |last=Gordon |url=https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/mievilleinterview.htm |title=Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville |journal=Science Fiction Studies <!--|number=91--> |volume=30 |issue=3 |date=November 2003 |publisher=DePauw University |location=Greencastle, Indiana}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Keith |last=Chaffee |url=https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/week-remember-happy-birthday-china-mieville |title=A Week to Remember: Happy Birthday, China Miéville! |publisher=Los Angeles Public Library |date=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Justine |last=Jordan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/14/china-mieville-life-writing-genre |title=A life in writing: China Miéville |work=The Guardian |date=14 May 2011}}</ref>) is a British [[speculative fiction]] writer and [[Literary criticism|literary critic]]. He often describes his work as "[[weird fiction]]", and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called [[New weird|New Weird]].

Miéville has won multiple awards for his fiction, including the [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]], [[British Fantasy Award]], [[BSFA Award]], [[Hugo Award]], [[Locus Award]], and [[World Fantasy Awards]]. He holds the record for the most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins (three). His novel ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'' was ranked by ''[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]'' as the 6th best [[fantasy novel]] published in the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web |work=Locus |title=2012 All-Centuries Polls Results |url=https://www.locusmag.com/2012/AllCenturyPollsResults.html |access-date=2024-05-09}}</ref> During 2012–13, he was [[Artist-in-residence|writer-in-residence]] at [[Roosevelt University]] in [[Chicago]]. He became a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://rsliterature.org/fellows/current-fellows/|publisher=Royal Society of Literature |title=Current RSL Fellows|access-date=7 April 2019| archive-date=6 February 2019| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190206015823/https://rsliterature.org/fellows/current-fellows/|url-status= dead}}</ref>

Miéville is active in [[left politics]] in the UK and has previously been a member of the [[International Socialist Organization]] (US) and the short-lived [[International Socialist Network]] (UK). He was formerly a member of the [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)|Socialist Workers Party]], and in 2013 became a founding member of [[Left Unity (UK)|Left Unity]].<ref name="Guardian letter">{{cite web | url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/12/left-unity-alternative | title = Letters: 'Left Unity ready to offer an alternative' | work = [[The Guardian]] | date = 12 August 2013}}</ref> He stood for [[Regent's Park and Kensington North (UK Parliament constituency)|Regent's Park and Kensington North]] for the Socialist Alliance in the [[2001 United Kingdom general election]], gaining 1.2% of votes cast.

== Early life and education==
Miéville was born in [[Norwich]] and brought up in [[Willesden]], and has lived in [[London]] since early childhood. Miéville's parents separated soon after his birth, and he has said that he "never really knew" his father.<ref name=Gordon1>{{cite journal | last = Gordon | first = Joan | title = Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville | journal = Science Fiction Studies | publisher = DePauw University | url = https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/mievilleinterview.htm | volume = 30 | issue = Part 3 | date = November 2003 | pages = 355–373 | doi = 10.1525/sfs.30.3.0355 |access-date=2 August 2012| url-access = subscription }}</ref> He grew up with his sister Jemima and mother Claudia. His mother was a translator, writer and teacher, and the daughter of Leo Claude Vaux Miéville, whose wife Youla (née Harrison) was granddaughter of [[Baron Hatherton|Edward Littleton, 4th Baron Hatherton]].<ref name="Debrett 1995">Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, ed. Patrick Montague-Smith, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 1995, p. 1264</ref><ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1823</ref>  His parents chose his first name, China, from a dictionary, looking for a beautiful name.<ref name=Gordon1/> By virtue of his mother's nationality, Miéville holds US citizenship in addition to British citizenship. In 1982 his mother married Paul Lightfoot, a maternal descendant of [[Baron Vaux of Harrowden#Barons Vaux of Harrowden (1523)|George Charles Mostyn, 6th Baron Vaux of Harrowden]]; they divorced in 1992.<ref name="Debrett 1995"/><ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3983</ref><ref>Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law, China Miéville, Haymarket Books, 2006, p. v</ref>

Miéville boarded at [[Oakham School]], a co-educational independent school in [[Oakham]], [[Rutland]], for two years. He subsequently attended [[University College School]]. At the age of eighteen, in 1990, he taught English for a year in Egypt, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and in Middle Eastern politics. Miéville studied for a BA degree in [[social anthropology]] at [[Clare College, Cambridge]], graduating in 1994, and gained both a master's degree and PhD in [[international law]] from the [[London School of Economics]] in 2001. Miéville has also held a [[Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship|Frank Knox fellowship]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref name=Gordon1/> After becoming dissatisfied with the ability of post-modern theories to explain history and political events, he became a [[Marxist]] at university.<ref name=Gordon1/> A book version of his PhD thesis, entitled ''Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law'', was published in the UK in 2005 by [[Brill Publishers|Brill]] in their "Historical Materialism" series, and in the United States in 2006 by [[Haymarket Books]].

== Literary influences ==
Miéville's works all describe fantastical or supernatural worlds or scenarios.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5540368/The-City-and-the-City-by-China-Mieville-review.html | title = The City and the City by China Miéville: review | last = Hanks | first = Robert | date = 15 June 2009 | newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] | access-date = 17 October 2013 | quote = He has twice won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction, but sci-fi purists complain that his frequent breaches of the laws of nature – magic, in other words – place him in the 'fantasy' camp. [...] A more precise category might be 'urban surrealism': surveying his career so far, it looks as if his central concern is life in the modern city, though filtered through dreams and nightmares.}}</ref><ref name=le-guin-guardian/> Miéville has said he plans to write a novel in every genre.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.long-sunday.net/long_sunday/2005/07/a_truly_monstro.html | title= A Truly Monstrous Thing to Do: Mieville Interview | interviewer=| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091012023448/http://www.long-sunday.net/long_sunday/2005/07/a_truly_monstro.html |archive-date= 12 October 2009 | website= Long-Sunday.net}}</ref> To this end, he has "constructed an oeuvre" that ranges from classic American [[Western (genre)|Western]] (in ''[[Iron Council]]'') to sea-quest (in ''[[The Scar (novel)|The Scar]]'' and ''[[Railsea]]'') to detective [[Noir fiction|noir]] (in ''[[The City &amp; the City]]'').<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.tor.com/2014/10/14/a-category-unto-himself-the-works-of-china-mieville/ | title = A Category Unto Himself: The Works of = China Miéville | last = Shurin | first = Jared | date = 4 August 2015 | website= tor.com | publisher = [[Tor Books]] | access-date = 24 April 2016}}</ref> His work has been described as [[new weird]] fiction.<ref name=moorcock-new-statesman/>

Miéville has listed [[M. John Harrison]], [[Michael de Larrabeiti]], [[Michael Moorcock]], [[Thomas M. Disch]], [[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]], [[Tim Powers]], and [[J. G. Ballard]] as literary "heroes"; he has also frequently discussed as influences [[H. P. Lovecraft]], [[Mervyn Peake]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], and [[Gene Wolfe]]. He has said that he would like his novels "to be read for [his imagined city] New Crobuzon as [[Iain Sinclair]] does for London". Miéville has admitted that his books contain some allusions to Russian writers, including [[Andrei Platonov]], [[Arkady and Boris Strugatsky]], {{Interlanguage link|Evgeny Voiskunskyru|3=Войскунский, Евгений Львович|lt=Evgeny Voiskunsky|ru}} and {{Interlanguage link|Isai Lukodyanov|ru|3=Лукодьянов, Исай Борисович|lt=Isai Lukodyanov}}.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://gorky.media/intervyu/nadeyus-nikto-ne-sochtet-oktyabr-nekritichnoy-agiografiey/ |title= Nadeyus' Nikto Ne Sochtet Oktyabr' Nekrtichnoy Agiografiey |last=Maltsev |first=Mikhail |date=25 October 2017 |access-date=9 January 2019 |language= ru |trans-title=I Hope Nobody Will Count That ''October'' Is an Uncritical Hagiography}}</ref>

Miéville played a great deal of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and similar [[roleplaying game]]s (RPGs) in his youth. He has attributed his tendency to systematisation of magic and theology to this influence.<ref name=Gordon1 /> In his novel ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'', he refers to characters interested "only in gold and experience". The February 2007 issue of [[Dragon (magazine)|''Dragon'' magazine]] interpreted the world presented in his books according to ''Dungeons & Dragons'' rules. The ''[[List of Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks#Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition|Player's Handbook]]'' for [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition|the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons]] cited his novel ''Perdido Street Station'' as a source of inspiration for the game's designers.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/rpg_playershandbook| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140801095034/http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/rpg_playershandbook| url-status= dead| archive-date= 1 August 2014| title= RPG Player's Handbook| website= DnD.wizards.com | publisher= | date= | access-date= }}</ref>

In 2010, Miéville made his first foray into writing for RPGs with a contribution to the ''[[Pathfinder Roleplaying Game]]'' supplement ''Guide to the River Kingdoms''.<ref>{{cite web| website= paizo.com| url= http://paizo.com/store/downloads/pathfinder/pathfinderChronicles/pathfinderRPG/v5748btpy8d50 |title= Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to the River Kingdoms (PFRPG) Print Edition| publisher= Paizo Publishing |date= | access-date= }}</ref>

Miéville once described [[Tolkien]] as "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature".<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.panmacmillan.com/displayPage.asp?PageID=3395 | title = Scar by China Mieville | publisher =| website= panmacmillan.com | access-date = 5 May 2011 }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot= InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted= yes }}</ref> Miéville is also indebted to Moorcock, having cited his essay "[[Epic Pooh]]" as the source upon which he is "riffing" or even simply "cheerleading" in his critique of Tolkien-imitative fantasy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://crookedtimber.org/2005/01/11/with-one-bound-we-are-free-pulp-fantasy-and-revolution/ |title=With One Bound We Are Free by China Mieville |website=crookedtimber.org |accessdate=17 June 2025}}</ref> Despite his criticisms, Miéville has praised Tolkien for his contributions to fantasy, especially in a 2009 blog post where he gave five reasons why Tolkien was praiseworthy.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://tolkienlibrary.com/press/896-china-mieville-on-tolkien.php |title=Weird Fiction Author China Miéville on J.R.R. Tolkien|website= tolkienlibrary.com| access-date=2025-07-30}}</ref>

He has cited [[Michael de Larrabeiti]]'s ''[[Borrible Trilogy]]'' as one of his biggest influences, and he wrote an introduction for the trilogy's 2002 reissue (the introduction was eventually left out of the book, but appears on de Larrabeiti's website).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.michaeldelarrabeiti.com/multimedia/articles/The%20Borribles%20Introduction,%20China.pdf |access-date=2022-07-14 |archive-date=5 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061105063455/http://www.michaeldelarrabeiti.com/multimedia/articles/The%20Borribles%20Introduction,%20China.pdf |title='The Borribles': An Introduction by China Miéville|url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Politics ==
Miéville has previously been a member of the [[International Socialist Organization]] (US) and, until 13 March 2013, was also a member of the [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)|Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP, UK).<ref name="IS2">[https://internationalsocialismuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/fao-central-committee-of-socialist.html "Resigning from the Socialist Workers Party"], International Socialism, 11 March 2013</ref> He stood unsuccessfully for the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]] in the [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001 general election]] as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance, gaining 459 votes, equivalent to 1.2%,<ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/474.stm | work = BBC News | title = BBC NEWS – VOTE 2001 – RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES – Regent's Park & Kensington North}}</ref> in [[Regent's Park and Kensington North]], a Labour constituency.<ref>[https://news.ansible.co.uk/a168.html ''Ansible'' 168], July 2001.</ref>

In January 2013, he emerged as a critic of the SWP's leadership and in March resigned<ref name="IS2"/> over the leadership's handling of rape allegations against a leading SWP member.<ref>Laurie Penny, [http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/2013/01/what-does-swps-way-dealing-sex-assault-allegations-tell-us-about-left "What does the SWP's way of dealing with sex assault allegations tell us about the left?"], ''New Statesman'', 11 January 2013</ref><ref>Paul Kellogg [https://links.org.au/node/3183 "Britain: Reflections on the crisis in the Socialist Workers Party"], ''LINKS – International Journal of Socialist Renewal'' (blog), 13 January 2013.</ref>

In August 2013, Miéville was one of nine signatories (along with veteran film-maker and socialist [[Ken Loach]], academic [[Gilbert Achcar]], General Secretary of the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] [[Kate Hudson (activist)|Kate Hudson]], fellow novelist [[Michael Rosen (author)|Michael Rosen]], and actor [[Roger Lloyd-Pack|Roger Lloyd Pack]]) of an open letter to ''[[The Guardian]]''  announcing the foundation of a "new party of the left", to be called [[Left Unity (UK)|Left Unity]]. The letter, which claimed that [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] policies on austerity and the breaking of ties with [[trades unions]] amounted to a "final betrayal of the working-class people it was founded to represent", stated that Left Unity would be launched at a "founding conference" in London on 30 November 2013 and would provide, as an "alternative" to Labour, "a party that is socialist, environmentalist, feminist and opposed to all forms of discrimination".<ref name="Guardian letter" />

In 2014, together with [[Richard Seymour (21st-century writer)|Richard Seymour]] and others, Miéville quit the [[International Socialist Network]], a Left Unity faction, over a dispute concerning the acceptability of sexual "race play"<ref name="Brown Manning 2014">{{cite web | last1=Brown | first1=David | last2=Manning | first2=Jonathon | title=No sex please comrades, we're British | website=[[The Times]] | date=17 May 2014 | url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/no-sex-please-comrades-were-british-m5rd5qgvtcf | access-date=1 Jan 2022}}</ref><ref name="Platt 2014">{{cite web | last=Platt | first=Edward | title=Comrades at war: the decline and fall of the Socialist Workers Party | website=New Statesman | date=20 May 2014 | url=https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategorized/2014/05/comrades-war-decline-and-fall-socialist-workers-party | access-date=1 Jan 2022}}</ref> that was prompted by discussion of a controversial art piece owned by [[Dasha Zhukova]].<ref name="Walker 2014">{{cite web | last=Walker | first=Shaun | title=Russian socialite sparks outrage with 'racist chair' photograph | website=the Guardian | date=21 Jan 2014 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/21/russian-socialite-zhukova-racist-chair-naked-black-mannequin | access-date=1 Jan 2022}}</ref>

In 2015, he was announced as one of the founding editors of a "bi-annual journal of revolutionary arts and letters", ''Salvage''.<ref>[http://salvage.zone/contributors/ Contributors] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313151115/http://salvage.zone/contributors/ |date=13 March 2018 }}, ''Salvage''.</ref> He has been the director of Salvage Publications since 2014.<ref name="Find and update company information 2014">{{cite web | title=China MIEVILLE personal appointments - GOV.UK | website=Find and update company information | date=2014-12-09 | url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/bETtzpoAYvDCHGuAiePTRLza4sw/appointments | access-date=2022-06-20}}</ref>

''October'', published in 2017, documents the dramatic events of the Russian revolution. Jonathan Steele reviewed it for ''[[The Guardian]]''. Steele considers it an ideological though nuanced retelling: "Known as a left-wing activist, [...] Miéville writes with the brio and excitement of an enthusiast who would have wanted the revolution to succeed. But he is primarily interested in the dramatic narrative&nbsp;– the weird facts&nbsp;– of the most turbulent year in Russia's history".<ref name="Guardian October review">{{cite web | url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/17/october-china-mieville-russian-revolution | title = October by China Miéville review – a brilliant retelling of the Russian Revolution | work = [[The Guardian]] | date = 17 May 2017}}</ref>

In a letter to [[Joybrato Mukherjee]] on 22 April 2024, Miéville rejected his nomination for a [[DAAD fellowship]], citing Mukherjee's role in the cancelling of Jewish-American political theorist [[Nancy Fraser]]'s Albertus Magnus Professorship at the [[University of Cologne]] because Fraser signed a pro-Palestine letter during the [[Gaza war]], and his lack of "faith that the institution will stand against such a shameful program of repression and anti-Palestinian racism."<ref>{{cite web |title=Letter to the DAAD |url=https://salvage.zone/letter-to-the-daad/ |website=salvage.zone |access-date=24 April 2024 |language=en |date=23 April 2024}}</ref>

== Personal life ==

In the early 2000s, Miéville lived in London with his partner Emma Bircham.<ref name="IndieBound.org">{{cite web | title=China Mieville Interview | website=IndieBound.org | url=https://www.indiebound.org/author-interviews/mievillechina | access-date=25 January 2022|first=Gavin J.|last=Grant}}</ref> They were both cast as extras in the 1999 film ''[[Notting Hill (film)|Notting Hill]]'',<ref name="BFI Filmography">{{cite web | title=Notting Hill | website=BFI Filmography | url=https://filmography.bfi.org.uk/film/150496896 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929103149/https://filmography.bfi.org.uk/film/150496896 | url-status=dead | archive-date=29 September 2019 | access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref> which he jokingly described as a dystopian alternate history of an ethnically cleansed city.<ref name="britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk 2011">{{cite web | title=Out of this World: China Miéville: what if? | website=britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk | date=3 August 2011 | url=http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/sciencefiction/2011/05/whatif.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803234742/http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/sciencefiction/2011/05/whatif.html | archive-date=3 August 2011 | url-status=unfit | access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref>

In 2013, Miéville denied allegations of emotional abuse made by an ex-girlfriend. He acknowledged having had a brief affair with the woman, but stated that her account of it was untrue. According to Miéville, he was in a non-monogamous relationship at the time, about which she was aware.<ref name="pw">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303161718/http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/genreville/?p=2262|archive-date=March 3, 2013|url=http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/genreville/?p=2262|title=Unpleasant Allegations, and a Response|first=Rose|last=Fox|work=Publishers Weekly|date=February 11, 2013|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref>

Since 2018, he has taken steps to defend his privacy, following what he described as a campaign of harassment and online defamation.<ref name="rejectamentalist manifesto 2018">{{cite web | first=China| last=Miéville| title=A Note of Warning| website=rejectamentalist manifesto | date=17 May 2018 | url=https://tentacular.tumblr.com/post/173990149433/a-note-of-warning-originally-posted-27-october | access-date=24 January 2022}}</ref>

Miéville is married to artist Season Butler.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Zeavin |first=Hannah |title=China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet's Boyfriend (It's Keanu Reeves) |url=https://www.wired.com/story/china-mieville-writes-a-secret-novel-with-the-internets-boyfriend-keanu-reeves/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref>

== Writings ==
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A comprehensive list of Miéville's work is available at the [[ISFDB]].

=== Fiction ===
==== Bas-Lag series ====
* ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'' (2000)
* ''[[The Scar (novel)|The Scar]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Iron Council]]'' (2004)

==== Stand-alone novels ====
* ''[[King Rat (Miéville novel)|King Rat]]'' (1998) {{ISBN|978-0312890735}}
* ''[[Un Lun Dun]]'' (2007) {{ISBN|978-0230015869}}
* ''[[The City & the City]]'' (2009) {{ISBN|978-1405000178}}
* ''[[Kraken (novel)|Kraken]]'' (2010) {{ISBN|978-0333989500}}
* ''[[Embassytown]]'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-0230750760}}
* ''[[Railsea]]'' (2012) {{ISBN|978-0230765108}}
* ''[[The Book of Elsewhere]]'' (2024), with [[Keanu Reeves]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Creamer |first=Ella |date=2024-01-10 |title=Keanu Reeves and China Miéville to release collaborative novel The Book of Elsewhere |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/10/keanu-reeves-and-china-mieville-to-release-collaborative-novel-the-book-of-elsewhere |work=The Guardian |access-date=2024-01-10}}</ref>
* The Rouse (2026) {{ISBN| 978-1509847396}}

==== Novellas ====
* ''[[The Tain (novella)|The Tain]]'' (2002)
* ''[[This Census-Taker]]'' (2016)
* ''[[The Last Days of New Paris]]'' (2016) {{ISBN|978-0345543998}}

==== Short story collections ====
* ''[[Looking for Jake]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories]]'' (2015)

==== Children's picture books ====
* ''The Worst Breakfast'' (2016), co-written and illustrated by [[Zak Smith]]

==== Comic books ====
* ''[[Hellblazer]]'' (1988 series) – #250 "Holiday Special": "Snow Had Fallen" (Feb. 2009)
* ''[[Justice League]]'' (2011 series) – #23.3 "Dial E #1: Dial Q for Qued" (Nov. 2013)
* ''[[Dial H]]'' (2012–2013 series) – #1-#15

==== Other ====
* ''[[Pathfinder Roleplaying Game|Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to the River Kingdoms]]'' (2010), with [[Elaine Cunningham]], [[Chris Pramas]], and [[Steve Kenson]]. [[Paizo Publishing]].

==== In an anthology ====
* "Watching God" (first publ. in ''Three Moments of an Explosion'', 2015), in ''Out of the Ruins'', edited by Preston Grassmann, Titan Books, 2021 {{ISBN|978-1789097399}}

=== Nonfiction ===
====Books====
* ''Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law'' (2005). Leiden: Brill. {{ISBN|1-931859-33-7}}
* ''Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction'' (2009), with Mark Bould. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press.
* ''[[October: The Story of the Russian Revolution]]'' (2017). [[Verso Books|Verso]].
* ''A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto'' (2022). [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Head of Zeus]]. {{ISBN|1786692031}}

====Essays====
* "London's Overthrow" (2011).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.londonsoverthrow.org | title=London's Overthrow | date=November–December 2011 | access-date=21 April 2016 | author=Miéville, China}}</ref> Reprinted in a shorter version as "[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/magazine/china-mieville-london.html?smid=pl-share Oh, London, You Drama Queen]", ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'' 2012-03-01: 42.
* "Preface to a Book not yet Written nor Disavowed" (2015). ''China Miéville: Critical Essays'', eds. Caroline Edwards and Tony Venezia.

==Adaptations==
* In 2006 Miéville's short story "Details" (collected in ''[[Looking for Jake]]'') was adapted as a screenplay by Dan Kay, and subsequently picked up by the studio [[Paramount Vantage]].<ref>[http://www.indiewire.com/buzz/061001.html#005349 "Paramount Vantage Gets 'Details'"], IndieWire {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428051254/http://www.indiewire.com/buzz/061001.html#005349 |date=28 April 2008 }}</ref>
* In February 2013, a stage adaptation of ''[[The City and the City]]'', written by [[Christopher M. Walsh]] and directed by Dorothy Milne, made its world premiere at [[Lifeline Theatre]] in Chicago, Illinois.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/chicago/theater/the-city-the-city-at-lifeline-theatre-theater-review|title=The City & the City at Lifeline Theatre {{!}} Theater review|website=Time Out Chicago|date=6 March 2013 |language=en|access-date=2019-08-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gapersblock.com/ac/2013/04/04/the-city-the-city-a-custom-more-honored-in-breach/|title=The City & the City: A Custom More Honored in Breach|website=Gapers Block|date=4 April 2013|author=Shunn, William|language=en|access-date=2024-09-25}}</ref> Miéville attended 16 March 2013 production of the adaptation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Lifeline-Theatre-Continues-its-30th-Season-With-THE-CITY-THE-CITY-20130227|title=Lifeline Theatre Continues its 30th Season With THE CITY & THE CITY|author=BWW News Desk|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en|access-date=2019-08-08}}</ref>
* A [[The City and the City (TV series)|television adaptation]] of the novel ''[[The City & the City]]'' was broadcast on [[BBC 2]] in 2018.
* American artist [[Mariam Ghani]]'s ''The City & The City'' (2015), is a loose adaptation of the novel ''[[The City & the City]]'' as a video artwork which "maps the conceptual framework of that novel onto the cityscape of St. Louis, melding some of the fictions of the novel's world with elements drawn from past and present histories of the city."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mariamghani.com/work/364|title=The City & The City|date=2015-05-04|work=MARIAM GHANI|access-date=2018-07-25|language=en-US}}</ref>
* The short story "Estate" (collected in ''[[Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories]]'') was adapted into [[Estate (2020 film)|a 25-minute movie]], released on August 14, 2020,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.estatemovie.co.uk|title=Estate - based on the story by China Miéville|access-date=2020-08-23|language=en-US}}</ref> that was described by a review in [[SciFiNow]] as "a 25 minute blast of striking imagery, earnest performances and intriguing themes."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-11|title=Estate review: Urban folklore|url=https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/estate-review-urban-folklore/|access-date=2020-09-11|website=SciFiNow|language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Honours ==
[[File:DS4 1724-800.jpg|thumb|Miéville just after winning the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2010]]

Miéville has won numerous accolades in speculative fiction; he holds the record for the most Arthur C Clarke Award wins (three).<ref name= SFADB-Clarke/> ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'' was featured in ''[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]''{{'s}} poll of all-time best 20th century fantasy novels, where it ranked 6th place.<ref name=locus-poll>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_2012_FH20th |title=Locus Online, 20th Century Fantasy Novel |work=[[Science Fiction Awards Database]] |publisher=Locus Science Fiction Foundation |access-date=27 December 2021}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center"
! Book / Award
! style="min-width: 4em" | [[Arthur C. Clarke Award|Arthur C <br/> Clarke]] 
! style="min-width: 4em" | [[British Fantasy Award|British <br/>Fantasy]]
! style="min-width: 4em" | [[BSFA Award|British <br/>SF]]
! style="min-width: 4em" | [[Hugo Award|Hugo]]
! style="min-width: 4em" | [[Locus Award|Locus]]
! style="min-width: 4em" | [[Nebula Award|Nebula]] 
! style="min-width: 4em" | [[World Fantasy Award|World <br/>Fantasy]]
! Ref.
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Perdido Street Station]]''
| {{Won}}
| {{Won}}
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Nom|Nom}} 
| <ref name="WWE-2001">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2001 |title=Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2001 Award Winners & Nominees |work=Worlds Without End |access-date=28 March 2009 }}</ref><ref name="WWE-Perdido">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=66 |title=Awards won by ''Perdido Street Station'' |work=Worlds Without End |access-date=28 March 2009 }}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Scar (novel)|The Scar]]''
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Won}}
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Won}}
| –
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| <ref name="WWE-2003">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2003 |title=Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2003 Award Winners & Nominees |work=Worlds Without End |access-date=3 May 2009 }}</ref><ref name="WWE-Scar">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=60 |title=Awards won by ''Scar'' |work=Worlds Without End |access-date=3 May 2009 }}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Iron Council]]''
| {{Won}}
| –
| –
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Won}}
| –
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| <ref name=SFADB/><ref name="WWE-2005">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2005 |title=Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2005 Award Winners & Nominees |work=Worlds Without End |access-date=28 March 2009}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Un Lun Dun]]''
| –
| –
| –
| –
| {{Won}}
| –
| –
| <ref name=SFADB>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfadb.com/China_Mieville |title=China Miéville Awards |work=[[Science Fiction Awards Database]] |publisher=Locus Science Fiction Foundation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113163852/http://www.sfadb.com/China_Mieville |archive-date=January 13, 2021 }}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The City & the City]]''
| {{Won}}
| –
| {{Won}}
| {{Won}}
| {{Won}}
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Won}}
| <ref name="guk100906">{{cite news |first=Alison |last=Flood |work=[[The Guardian]] |title=China Miéville and Paolo Bacigalupi tie for Hugo award |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/06/china-mieville-paolo-bacigalupi-hugo-award |date=6 September 2010 |access-date=9 September 2010 |location=London }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/09/2010-hugo-awards-winners/ |title=2010 Hugo Awards Winners |work=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]] |date=5 September 2010 |access-date=28 June 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/10/world-fantasy-awards-winners// |title=World Fantasy Awards Winners |work=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]] |date=31 October 2010 |access-date=28 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523200039/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/10/world-fantasy-awards-winners/ |archive-date=23 May 2012 }}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Kraken (novel)|Kraken]]''
| –
| –
| –
| –
| {{Won}}
| –
| –
| <ref name=SFADB/>
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Embassytown]]''
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| –
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| {{Won}}
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| – 
| <ref name=SFADB/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2012-hugo-awards/ |title=2012 Hugo Awards |publisher=[[Hugo Award]]s |access-date=9 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409193243/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2012-hugo-awards/ |archive-date=9 April 2012 }}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Railsea]]''
| –
| {{Nom|Nom}}
| –
| –
| {{Won}}
| –
| –
| <ref name=SFADB/>
|}

* Miéville's first novel, ''[[King Rat (Miéville novel)|King Rat]]'' (1998), was nominated for both an [[International Horror Guild Award|International Horror Guild]] and a [[Bram Stoker Award|Bram Stoker]] award. 
* ''[[The Scar (novel)|The Scar]]'' received a [[Philip K. Dick Award]] special citation. 
* "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—Short Fiction|World Fantasy Award]] and tied for the 2005 Locus Award for Best Novelette. 
* ''[[The City & the City]]'' won the 2009 [[Kitschies]] Award.
* Miéville has been a Guest of Honour at multiple science fiction conventions, including Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention ([[Eastercon]]) in London and [[Readercon]] 2006.
* He was a 2018 [[Guggenheim Fellow]] in Fiction.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/china-mieville/ |title=Current Fellow |publisher=[[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]] }}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=le-guin-guardian>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/08/embassytown-china-mieville-review |title=Embassytown by China Miéville – review |last=Le Guin |first=Ursula K |author-link=Ursula K. Le Guin |date=7 May 2011 |work=[[The Guardian]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421150052/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/08/embassytown-china-mieville-review |archive-date=21 April 2020}}</ref>
<ref name=moorcock-new-statesman>{{cite web |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2017/03/what-new-weird-and-what-makes-weird-fiction-so-relevant-our-times |title=What is the "New Weird" – and what makes weird fiction so relevant to our times? |last=Moorcock |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Moorcock |work=[[New Statesman]] |date=12 March 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506185451/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2017/03/what-new-weird-and-what-makes-weird-fiction-so-relevant-our-times |archive-date=6 May 2017}}</ref>
<ref name=SFADB-Clarke>{{cite web |url= https://www.sfadb.com/Arthur_C_Clarke_Award_Tallies |title= Arthur C Clarke Award Tallies |access-date=31 July 2021 |work=[[Science Fiction Awards Database]] |publisher=Locus Science Fiction Foundation}}</ref>
|2}}

== Further reading ==
=== Books ===
* {{cite book |editor1=Edwards, Caroline |editor2=Tony Venezia |name-list-style=amp |title=China Miéville: Critical Essays |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r1YnDgAAQBAJ |date=December 2015|publisher=Gylphi Limited |isbn=978-1-78024-029-9}}
* {{cite book |title=Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-vCCgAAQBAJ |last=Freedman |first=Carl Howard |author-link=Carl Freedman (writer) |publisher=Gylphi |isbn=978-1-78024-030-5 |date=September 2015}}

=== Articles and chapters ===
* {{cite journal |last=Butler |first=Andrew M. |title=The Tain and the Tain: China Miéville's Gift of Uncanny London |journal=CR: The New Centennial Review |volume=13 |issue=2 |date=2013 |pages=133–153 |doi=10.14321/crnewcentrevi.13.2.0133 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_centennial_review/v013/13.2.butler.html |access-date=5 September 2021|url-access=subscription }}
* {{cite journal |last=Elber-Aviram |first=Hadas |title=The Labyrinthine City: Bleak House's Influence on Perdido Street Station |journal=English: The Journal of the English Association |volume=61 |issue=234 |date=2012 |pages=267–289 |doi=10.1093/english/efs039 |url=https://academic.oup.com/english/article/61/234/267/605904 |access-date=5 September 2021|url-access=subscription }}
* {{cite book |last=Elber-Aviram |first=Hadas |author-mask=1 |date=2021 |title=Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |pages=165–197 |chapter='My home, the city' : Secondary-World London |isbn=9781350110670}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Głaz |first1=Adam |title=Reversals and Paradoxes |journal=Extrapolation |volume=56 |issue=3 |date=2015 |pages=335–352 |issn=0014-5483 |doi=10.3828/extr.2015.18 |url=http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/extr.2015.18 |access-date=28 January 2016 |archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603223255/https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/extr.2015.18 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite journal |author=Kammer, Mona |date=Spring 2023 |title=Securing and crossing borders : estrangement in China Miéville's ''The City and the City'' |journal=Clues |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=106–116}}
* {{cite journal |last=Palmer |first=Christopher |title=Saving the City in China Miéville's Bas-Lag Novels |journal=Extrapolation |volume=50 |issue=2 |date=2009 |pages=224–238 |doi=10.3828/extr.2009.50.2.5 |url=https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/article/33960/ |access-date=5 September 2021|url-access=subscription }}
* {{cite journal |author=Spinrad, Norman |author-link=Norman Spinrad |date=Apr–May 2013 |title=Doors to anywhere |department=On Books |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume=37 |issue=4&5 |pages=183–191}} Reviews ''Railsea''.

=== Dissertations ===
* {{cite thesis |author=Rankin, Sandra K. |date=2009 |title=China Miéville and the misbegot : monsters, magic, and Marxism |type=Ph.D. thesis |publisher=University of Arkansas}}

==External links==
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* [https://www.chinamieville.net "Rejectamentalist Manifesto"] Blog by China Miéville
* {{British council|china-mieville}}
* {{ISFDB name|2180}}
* {{IBList|type=author|id=339|name=China Miéville}}
* [https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mieville_interview/ "In a Carapace of Light: A Conversation with China Miéville"] at ''[[Clarkesworld Magazine]]''
* ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'', ''[[The Scar (novel)|The Scar]]'' and ''[[Iron Council]]'' (2004) all make [https://steampunkbooks.net Steampunkbooks.net] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822194638/https://steampunkbooks.net/ |date=22 August 2018 }}'s list of [https://steampunkbooks.net/top-ten-steampunk-books/ Top Ten Steampunk Books of All Time].

; Appearances
* [https://soundcloud.com/novaramedia/october-china-mieville-on-the-russian-revolution Audio interview] on his book ''October'' with [[Novara Media]]
* [https://www.c-span.org/search/basic/?query=China+Mi%C3%A9ville C-SPAN appearances]

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