Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Subtle Time-Loose Doctor asked me to post a list of favorite science fiction and fantasy novels. As it happens, China Miéville has done most of the work for me in a survey called Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read. Miéville modestly leaves himself off the list, but he belongs on it. He’s well on his way to becoming a genuine stylist of the Baroque. Great antidote to Tolkien.
The following is taken from Wikipedia’s article on Miéville.
Miéville has lived in London since early childhood. When he was eighteen, he lived and taught English in Egypt, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and Middle Eastern politics. Miéville has a B.A. in social anthropology from Cambridge and a master's with distinction and PhD from the London School of Economics. Miéville has also held a Frank Knox fellowship at Harvard. A book version of his PhD thesis, titled Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law is scheduled to be published in the UK by Haymarket Books in May 2006.
He is a member of the British Socialist Workers Party, and stood unsuccessfully for the British House of Commons in the 2001 General Election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance, gaining 459 votes, i. e. 1.2%, in a traditionally Labour constituency. His left-wing politics colour his writing (they are particularly evident in Iron Council, his latest novel) as well as his theoretical ideas about literature (he criticised The Lord of the Rings as reactionary); several panel discussions at conventions about the relationship of politics and writing which set him against right-wingers ended up in heated arguments.
The following is taken from Wikipedia’s article on Miéville.
Miéville has lived in London since early childhood. When he was eighteen, he lived and taught English in Egypt, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and Middle Eastern politics. Miéville has a B.A. in social anthropology from Cambridge and a master's with distinction and PhD from the London School of Economics. Miéville has also held a Frank Knox fellowship at Harvard. A book version of his PhD thesis, titled Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law is scheduled to be published in the UK by Haymarket Books in May 2006.
He is a member of the British Socialist Workers Party, and stood unsuccessfully for the British House of Commons in the 2001 General Election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance, gaining 459 votes, i. e. 1.2%, in a traditionally Labour constituency. His left-wing politics colour his writing (they are particularly evident in Iron Council, his latest novel) as well as his theoretical ideas about literature (he criticised The Lord of the Rings as reactionary); several panel discussions at conventions about the relationship of politics and writing which set him against right-wingers ended up in heated arguments.
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