![]() Embassytown, published this month, takes that ambition to a new level. ![]() Miéville has always worn his influences on his sleeve – Lovecraft, Peake, classic and new wave SF, fantasy, comics and the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing games he played as a kid – but from the start his books combined this love of genre, geeky in its enthusiasm and scholarly in its depth, with an ambitious literary sensibility. He marked the year with an arm-spanning tattoo of a "skulltopus", a grinning skull swathed in vibrant tentacles, an image developed as a homage to the different traditions of the weird and fantastic from which his imagination springs. Kraken was published and his new novel, Embassytown, was in preparation. The City and the City won him the Arthur C Clarke award, science fiction's most significant prize, for an unprecedented third time, and also brought mainstream critical applause. L ast year was a significant one for China Miéville. ![]()
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