China Mieville Fantasy Quotations

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.