China Mieville

See:

• isfdb:author/China_Miéville
• http://www.chinamieville.co.uk
• http://www.panmacmillan.com/features/china/ - His homepage on the publisher's site

Is a really interesting speaker

Was at Pico Con 2002. Guest of Honor at Wis Con 2003.

Has really big arms.

China Mieville is his given name. (Source of great bonding, see <http://www.sharyn.org/name.html> -- SDN)

Seems to have inspired something of a fashion trend amongst London fandom; built like you could beat someone to a pulp, dressed like you're a trendy businessman. I rather think generations of gangsters have the jump on China here.

Involved with The New Weird, if you think that's important.

Written, with appropriate ratings out of five:

• King Rat [3 -- MF]
• Perdido Street Station [4 -- MF]
• The Scar [4 -- MF]
• The Tain (for PS Publishing) [3 -- NH][5 -- MF]
• An End To Hunger (<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/32/15732.html>)
• Iron Council [3 -- NH]
• Looking For Jake? (short stories)

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Lovely. How about the grave accents that make French the creme de la creme of linguistics? :)--TL

Only the acute accent is needed, thanks to the global hegemony of Pokémon --TCW

• If i said you had acute accent, would you ... oh, never mind.

Ambassador, with these ISO Latin 1? characters you're really fucking up our conformance to web standards! Still, mostly fixable.