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137: A 2007 Interview with China Mieville

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column

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Author: I always knew that I wanted to write something which had a relatively disrespectful or argumentative attitude to questions of fate and destiny. And one of the classic figures is the chosen one, the one chosen by destiny to do certain things. So in terms of those two characters, I knew from quite early on that what I wanted to do was have a chosen one and her and her friend, but then have a kind ofrespectful relationship with each other.

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