Tag Archive | "China Mieville"

Comics and SF at the London Literature Festival

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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James reports that The London Literature Festival has a nice selection of items for comics and fantastic genre fans. For Comic Readers, ‘Drawing the Story’ will be taking place on Saturday the 26th of May at 2pm, as part of the London Lit Festival, in the Southbank Centre. Mary Talbot, Glyn Dillon and Stephen Collins will [...]

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Science fiction: The City and the City on stage

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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Arthur C Clarke award-winning author China Miéville’s story is being performed by the Lifeline Theatre  in Chicago. The theatre company who has been entertaining for thirty years, have performed works such as Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by Tolkien, Cats Cradle and Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. I am [...]

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China Mieville on freedom of speech, offensive words and that Tintin book

Thursday, March 1, 2012

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We’ve remarked several times over the last couple of years on here about the Belgian court case alleging racism in Tintin in the Congo and demanding a ban on the book (the case was dismissed just recently as judges felt given the time it was created there was no intention to offend or incite racism, [...]

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‘I can’t find my Girl Annuals’ – China Mieville and Paul Gravett at BD Passion

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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(China Mieville dans une conversation avec Paul Gravett sur la bande dessinée qui l’ont influencé á la Institut Français. Pics by James, click images to see the larger versions on Flickr) We sent James Bacon to the Bande Dessinée and Comics Passion festival and here is just a report on the first event…. I will [...]

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China Mieville at the Arthur C Clarke Awards

Friday, April 30, 2010

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Macmillan has posted a good quality video of the quite brilliant China Mieville’s acceptance speech after winning this week at the UK’s most prestigious literary prize for good science fiction writing, the Arthur C Clarke Awards for his novel The City and the City. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9eRg88Dd0 I love China’s work – if you haven’t read it [...]

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Arthur C Clarke Award winner announced

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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Cheryl Morgan got the news out pretty darn quickly via Twitter that the winner of the most prestigious prize in the UK for science fiction literature, the Arthur C Clarke Award, has gone to China Mieville for The City and the City. From what Cheryl reports the post awards party bash is now in full [...]

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Lit Sutra – Brit writers in India

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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Alastair kindly informs us that several British writers – China Mieville, Andy Diggle, Mark Billingham and Denise Mina -are all travelling to India this week. It’s part of the Lit Sutra programme of the British Council, “whose aim is to introduce the best British crime fiction, sf & fantasy, and graphic novel writers to the [...]

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