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030: A 2004 Conversation With China Mieville

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column

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Paddida Street Station

When I wrote Paddida Street Station, I quite... It was as much to do with the setting as it was to do with anything else. The plot is just, you know, monsters run riot. In Iron Council, again, in certain ways, Iron Council is quite a traditional plot. You're very successful with your neologisms. They're beautiful. And that brings to mind another point that one of the pleasures of reading your books is that you manage to make all the words pronounceable. Well, most of them, I mean, I don't promise I'll always do that,. but I mean generally,you know, the creatures and the aliens in my world are all

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