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030: A 2004 Conversation With China Mieville

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column

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How to Write a Western Novel

The author says he tried to steep himself in the tradition of Westerns. He was influenced by Frank Spearman and Cormac McCarthy's depiction of landscape. The book is a Gothic Western with gunslingers, bounty hunters,. men on horseback, wide open planes, two bit one sheriff towns, gamblers, all that stuff.

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