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Curious that we don't know anything about China's next book at this point. Seems like he's possibly going to miss his annual release for the first time in a while.
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Sargeant Biffalot posted:As with Ankh-Morpork and Planescape's Sigil, the London influence seems stronger than it is because Dickensian London is kind of our default way of imagining the Industrial Era cities anyway. But the art-y anarchist underground in Iron Council, particularly that puppet play, makes me think Berlin, and the merchant domination and racially divided underclass fits that city better too. (Come to think of it, I wonder if Ankh-Morpork's double city divided by a river status is inspired by Berlin-Cölln) Iron Council is pretty much straight up about Rosa Luxemburg in some ways so yeah, it's very much reminiscent of Berlin in that one.
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Mar 31, 2013 23:56
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With Dial H (unfortunately) wrapping up reasonably soon, I wonder if we'll hear more about his next written project before too much longer.
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May 29, 2013 22:19
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Hedrigall posted:
Nice find. I'd be sort of surprised to see that, to be honest - most of the time you see a short story collection come out from a well-known author, they're either earlier pieces previously published in assorted magazines (I wouldn't be surprised if Miéville had some short stories from his early career that didn't make it into Looking for Jake, though) or they've otherwise surfaced recently. It's uncommon for short story books to truly contain more than one or two stories' worth of actually hitherto unseen material. When I last corresponded with him a few years ago, he did mention that he's got some ghost-story stuff that was a few years out, so even if, Dial H aside, there does seem to be something of a Miéville hiatus at the moment (and a short story collection would in some senses prolong that hiatus), he does usually have his next few projects plotted out in a vague sense at the very least. I sort of suspect that the split in the British SWP has taken a great deal of his attention, though.
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Aug 25, 2013 19:42
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Dial H wraps up with its coda "Dial E" piece in six days, and then we'll have no forthcoming Mieville projects known. I wonder if that possible book of short stories will get officially announced anytime soon.
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Sep 12, 2013 18:20
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Hedrigall posted:So what do people think of the Dial H coda issue? I thought it was okayish but was clearly more of a coda than a real story. And no, if it were getting continued we'd know. Bummer, though. I was hoping Centipede with his dial would become a recurring DC villain.
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Sep 20, 2013 19:12
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The second and final Dial H digest should be coming out in February, I think, and people who want to see what China's been up to really ought to pick up both of those. And yeah, Hedrigall, I wouldn't be too terribly surprised to see a little bit of stuff from his Tumblr make it into the book.
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Dec 30, 2013 00:11
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Un Lun Dun feels very much to me like, London elements aside, it was written specifically to be adapted to film by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Jan 10, 2014 19:32
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The Supreme Court posted:That's brilliant! I wasn't expecting to ever see it, given how rare the copies of it were. Congrats on getting your hands on it, and thanks for sharing it with us. You think so? I feel like Embassytown is, if anything, the most heavily embedded into the written word of all of Miéville's works. It's very deliberately written with a vocabulary that starts off as alienating and gradually becomes less so as you understand the world. I think Un Lun Dun and Railsea would make great adventure movies, though.
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May 14, 2014 19:31
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Iron Council's a totally satisfying conclusion to the non-trilogy, though. I kind of *prefer* for everything after that remain empty/pregnant time in order to do justice to the ending. I wouldn't mind more stuff taking place pre-PSS, I suppose. But it's not as if Embassytown and Railsea aren't equally awesome fertile ground for future storytelling should he choose to return to those settings.
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Feb 10, 2015 05:30
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Hedrigall posted:
The Crawl and Four Final Orpheuses have definitely already shown up on China's blog. Very possibly a few others too.
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Mar 12, 2015 06:23
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China's getting involved in more political projects again, so I think it's safe to assume that he's going to be a bit less prolific as a writer of fiction for a little while.
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I still think the perfect Miéville film adaptation would be if Hayao Miyazaki came out of retirement to adapt Un Lun Dun. The young female protagonist, the bizarre supporting cast, the potentially-cute living words and garbage, the scene with an impassive female bureaucrat antagonist, the heavy environmentalist themes, the big flying-vehicle setpiece: it's seriously got everything Miyazaki loves.
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