During 2012–13, he was writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
His novel Perdido Street Station was ranked by Locus as the 6th all-time best fantasy novel published in the 20th century. He holds the record for the most Arthur C Clarke Award wins (three). Clarke Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award and World Fantasy Awards. Miéville has won numerous awards for his fiction, including the Arthur C. He often describes his work as weird fiction and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (2017)Ĭhina Tom Miéville FRSL ( / m i ˈ eɪ v əl/ mee- AY-vəl born 6 September 1972) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. & tacks & yaws, switches on its way to where it’s going, as we all must do.Short-story writer, novelist, essayist and comic book author But it takes a veering route, up & backwards, overshooting & correcting, back down again south & west, crossing its own earlier path, changing direction, another overlap, to stop, finally, a few hairs’ width from where we began. What word better could there be to symbolize the railsea that connects & separates all lands, than “&” itself? Where else does the railsea take us, but to one place & that one & that one & that one, & so on? & what better embodies, in the sweep of the pen, the recurved motion of trains, than “&”?Īn efficient route from where we start to where we end would make the word the tiniest line. It is always switchback, junction, coils around & over our own train-trails. The lines of the railsea go everywhere but from one place straight to another. Humanity learned to ride the rails, & that motion made us what we are, a ferromaritime people. But there it is, & there is nothing we can do about it.
There was a time when the word "&" was written with several distinct & separate letters. “There was a time when wen we did not form all our words as we do now, in writing on a page.
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