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674: A 2009 Interview with China Mieville

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column

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The Realist Gender of Crime

"I'm not sure I can take that much credit for a couple of reasons," he says. "It's true that crime as a genre claims that it is a, a realistic genre in that it's set in the real world ... Nothing fantastic happens." He adds: "This is dream logic. You know, this is pure fantasy... This is part of what makes the genre so fantastic"

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