China Mieville Quote
When I approached and told her the key-maker wasn’t there she cursed filthily and threw something hard against the step, shouting, What am I supposed to do with this now? It bounced away. I waited while she stormed away and when she’d left I got onto all fours and found what she’d discarded. It was a bit of some engine. It looked like a heart, I remember that. I put it on the kitchen table. When, hours later, my father returned, he put down his heavy bags at the sight of it. A woman brought it, I said. He picked it up and turned it over. She threw it away and went. Whatever this came from, he said, what she wants is a key to make it start again. Can’t she just put it back in? I said.
China Mieville
When I approached and told her the key-maker wasn’t there she cursed filthily and threw something hard against the step, shouting, What am I supposed to do with this now? It bounced away. I waited while she stormed away and when she’d left I got onto all fours and found what she’d discarded. It was a bit of some engine. It looked like a heart, I remember that. I put it on the kitchen table. When, hours later, my father returned, he put down his heavy bags at the sight of it. A woman brought it, I said. He picked it up and turned it over. She threw it away and went. Whatever this came from, he said, what she wants is a key to make it start again. Can’t she just put it back in? I said.
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About China Mieville
Miéville has won multiple awards for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Awards. He holds the record for the most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins (three). His novel Perdido Street Station was ranked by Locus as the 6th best fantasy novel published in the 20th century. During 2012–13, he was writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015.
Miéville is active in far-left politics in the UK and has previously been a member of the International Socialist Organization (US) and the short-lived International Socialist Network (UK). He was formerly a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 2013 became a founding member of Left Unity. He stood for Regent's Park and Kensington North for the Socialist Alliance in the 2001 United Kingdom general election, gaining 1.2% of votes cast.