China Miéville

China Miéville is the author of various works of fiction and non-fiction, and a founding editor of the journal Salvage. Photograph © Katie Cooke

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‘That after so many years of feeling that some Event was due, that something vast must surely happen, something vast happened. Is happening.’

‘I can’t remember: did a young man destroy his miserable god, or did a god free its worshipper and take his blood and his bones?’