@comics #comics Did anyone else collect or read these Dial H comics from 2012-2013? On a re-read I still think they're pretty great fun, with #ChinaMieville 's brain fizzing away at inventing absurd new heroes, brought to life by #MateusSantolouco and #AlbertoPonticelli , for the random dial to tap in to. The storytelling definitely got quite hurried before the cancellation with issue 15 (an epilogue was printed as 'Justice League 23.3'. Comics are strange).
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Now reading China Miéville, Kraken. #bookstodon #fiction #ChinaMieville
@kdawson @kristiedegaris left The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville along with it, which is unsettling in its own ways.
@ardenthistorian.bsky.social »The Scar« (2002) by #ChinaMiéville is still my favorite Fantasy novel of this century, and one of the top entries in the genre of all time, imho.
Bellis Coldwine is a fabulous against the grain female protagonist. And I fancy, that themes and politics of Mievilles Bas-Lag novels are in your ball park.
Little orientation about the Anti-Tolkien-, Anti-Trilogy-Trilogy in my review of »Iron Council« (2004) from 2006.
Ich fass es nicht, was ich derzeit über Fehler stolpere.
»Niegeschichte. Science Fiction als Kunst- und Denkmaschine« (2019, Matthes & Seitz) von #DietmarDath
Bibliographische Angabe S. 915 zu #ChinaMiéville sacht, »Dieser Volkszähler« wäre 2018 im Junis {sic} Verlag, Hamburg erschienen, wo das Buch doch 2017 in der Liebeskind Verlagsbuchhandlung München erschien.
Und: Verweise von Namens-Index zu Bibliographie ab S. 909 sind alle um +1 falsch, weil der Seitenumbruch übersehen wurde.
Seufz.
@halbwach Für wen Gesetzte de facto gemacht werden, erkennt man daran, wer es sich leisten kann mehr Kohle dafür rauszuballen, die sie den eigenen Interessen dienen.
»Die chaotischer und blutige Welt um uns, ist die Herrschafts des Rechts.«
— Schlussatz von »Between Equal Rights« (2005) von #ChinaMiéville.
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-series/between-equal-rights/
el libro de otro lugar
¿Cómo te sentirías si, después de morir, volvieras a la vida un tiempo después, resurgiendo de una crisálida formada a partir de tus restos? Una y otra vez, durante más de 80.000 años. Recordando todas y cada una de tus ¿muertes? Recordando todas y cada una de tus ¿vidas? Recordando todo. Bueno, todo salvo los lapsos de tiempo donde pierdes el control y entras en una vorágine de violencia sin igual.
Esta es la premisa de el libro de otro lugar, una obra escrita por China Miéville […]
I'm sorry, I should explain.
My last line was NOT meant to be a #dig at #ChinaMiéville. It's meant to be a dig at how #BLOATED #fantasy and #sciencefiction became since the 1990s.
As a young adult, I got burned out by #RobertJordan's #WheelofTime, THEN made the mistake of starting #GeorgeMartin's #Asoiaf (a mistake I corrected by putting "A Clash of Kings" down halfway through).
In the 1970s, #MichaelMoorcock proved you could write epics in less than 200 pages. A lesson I wish wasn't lost.
Tonight I just finished reading "The Last Days of New Paris," by #ChinaMieville. Very surprising; I never thought I'd ever even START reading another book by Mieville, let alone finish it.
I've struggled with the work of this author, quite a bit. I started Perdido Street Station several times, never finished it once. I did finish "The Scar" and "Kraken," and was disappointed both times, though now I don't remember why.
#chinamiéville
#Surrealism
#Mainaplum
#WorldWarTwo
#LastDaysOfNewParis
Reread this #ChinaMiéville ; a pure fun adventure in a postapocalyptic world of twisting rails across ground infested by giant creatures, and the molers, pirates, and explorers who travel around it in trains. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
From an interview with Ursula K. #LeGuin in 2004
Q: As for #SF itself, why is it so dominated by right-wing politics? Is it the dark Campbell/Heinlein/Anderson influence, or is it something intrinsic to the form?
UKL: Are you only reading the old guys? Try #ChinaMiéville!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/feb/09/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.ursulakleguin
I got "The Book of Elsewhere" by China Mieville and Keanu Reeves as a gift from @Nightwolf. Haven't read anything by either author before, and really wanted to love it.
It was okay. I found the story and themes to be a bit basic and kept expecting more. Maybe you need to be a fan of the BRZRKR comics for it to really hit home?
I'll give another book of Mieville's a chance, because I enjoyed the prose.
#bookstodon #speculativefiction #ChinaMieville #KeanuReeves #BRZRKR
Stolperzitat Nr. 10 #ChinaMiéville in 'The Scar' -
Gebannte Faszination:
"It is a faint, regular beat that he feels in his innards. A ponderous smashing stroke. His stomach pitches. He hears it only for an instant, a quirk of space and thaumaturgy, but he knows what it is, and the knowledge stuns him. It is a heart the size of cathedral, beating far below him in the dark."
Pues que hoy vengo a hablaros de "El libro de otro lugar", esa obra conjunta de China Miéville y Keanu Reeves.
https://athnecdotario.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/el-libro-de-otro-lugar-de-china-mieville-y-keanu-reeves/
#bookstodon #literaverso #literatura #books #keanureeves #chinamieville #BRZRKR
Tariffic
How ‘bout those tariffs? I’m sure the penguin delegation was instrumental in getting their implementation partially delayed. Seriously though, this is what happens when the president has no idea how anything actually works and then delegates the policy creation to AI. Yup, the whole tariff chart was likely created with AI. And if the tech bros have their way, the whole country will soon be run mostly by AI.
Capitalism, and with it modern civilization as the “developed” world has come to know it, was always going to collapse at some point because it is unsustainably predicated on perpetual growth in a finite system. This is why Musk wants to go to Mars, Bezos to the Moon, and plenty of others talk seriously about mining asteroids. Without the Sam Altmans, Peter Thiels, and Elons Musks, capitalism probably would have stumbled along for a good many years to come. However, with the tech bros at the top of the money-power pyramid, the collapse is suddenly accelerating.
Even up to a few months ago mention of collapse was not likely to appear in any kind of mainstream media, even the more liberal ones. You’d need to tune into podcasts like Crazy Town where they talk about it on the regular. But when The Guardian publishes an article about a report from Allianz SE, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, that warns climate change is on track to destroy capitalism and Scientific American publishes an article about how big banks like Morgan Stanley are quietly preparing for climate catastrophe you know things are getting serious. Of course, neither of the articles mentions how the insurance industry or the global finance industry have played significant roles in creating the conditions of collapse while they continue to find ways to profit off of it.
Meanwhile, as Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor write, we find ourselves moving ever deeper into end times fascism. The super rich are building their bunkers and walled cities while they dismantle democracy. The tech bros are forthright about capitalism and democracy being incompatible. They cannot keep making money, using resources, and immiserating you and me unless all the guardrails of democracy are removed. So they make up lies about Venezuelan gang invasions, hoards of immigrants crossing the border, and trans people. They stop funding science and education and libraries. And then they start removing information from government websites about health and climate change, and anything that can be considered DEI or DEI adjacent. Because information is dangerous. If we know how to think, we can figure out how to resist.
All of the tech bros and a good many of the people who think like Robert Kennedy, are huge supporters of eugenics. It’s why Elon Musk pays women to have his children. It’s one reason why anti-vaxxers and health influencers are so self-righteous—if you are genetically worthy, the measles/COVID/other disease won’t kill you. Viruses are just Nature’s way of editing the gene pool.
The well-off know collapse is coming and that they, and their greedy capitalist fingers, are the reason for it. But they won’t ever say that and the mainstream will avoid talking about it for as long as possible because we wouldn’t want people to panic. Except people are panicking, we just don’t know what we are really panicking about. Those who suspect are being encouraged to prepare by buying guns, gold, ready-to-eat meals, to create our own mini bunkers so capitalism can make money off our panic.
It may seem nothing but doom and gloom, but it’s not. When you live in a dying civilization there are opportunities to create what comes next. What we do now, the ideas we talk about, the communities we create, and the positive futures we imagine make a difference. It is up to us as things fall apart to create the tools and vision to build something new and better.
Surveying possibilities, I recently read The Communist Manifesto for the first time. It is a fascinating and still relevant document. The analysis of capitalism is sharp and Marx and Engels are weirdly admiring of capitalism’s adaptability. They believed that capitalism’s end would come about by the rupture of revolution. I think at this point we are well beyond that sort of end. But even as capitalism collapses beneath its own weight, I do not agree with the communist future the pair imagined.
To go along with the Manifesto, I read China Miévile’s book A Spectre, Haunting. He provided very good historical context for the whole undertaking. Miéville, who considers himself a Communist, concludes his book by talking about hate. He says that Marx and Engels were very careful in the Manifesto to make it clear that we are to hate the system of capitalism and not the people who comprise the capitalist class—the bourgeoisie. A good and important distinction.
But then Miéville goes on to say for the sake of humanity, we must “hate harder” than the Manifesto. That “class hate is constitutive with and inextricable from solidarity.” He insists that we should “hate this hateful and hating and hatemongering system of cruelty.” He does say that we cannot celebrate or trust hate, that hate can easily turn on us. He quotes Che Guevara who said that the true revolutionary is “guided by a great feeling of love.” And then he does a bit of doublespeak by concluding his book: “It’s for the sake of love that, reading it today, we must hate more and better than even The Communist Manifesto knew how.”
That scares me more than straight up hate.
I recently read another book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez. In one of the chapters Fours Arrows comments that it isn’t “so much about resisting [or hating in Miéville’s case] those who are destroying life systems,” but about loving those life systems so much that you work to save them.
That’s what I aim to do. As capitalism and civilization collapses, I will be loving as much and as hard as I can. Hate can do nothing but destroy. But love, love saves and love creates. Let’s create a new and better world together.
#capitalism #ChinaMiéville #ClimateChange #collapse #CommunistManifesto #democracy #Engels #eugenics #fascism #loveHate #Marx #techBros
Stolperzitat Nr. 9 aus 'The Scar' von #chinamiéville #baslag #fantasy #lesen und beschreibt die Vorbereitung der Kampfsportler der 'scabmettler'; dt. Schorfeiferer?:
"Each of them sliced in turn at his face, and chest, and belly an thighs, and grew a unique integument of dried blood, hardened cuirasses and greaves and vambraces and helmets with irregular edges and coloration; random extrusions like lava flows, organic and mineral at once."
How awesomely weird and disgusting do you wanna be? <3
As always, China Mieville says interesting and thought-provoking things about science fiction, politics, tech, and the world in general in this interview. Definitely worth reading!
Endlich gehe ich Teil 2 der #BasLag Trilogie an. Bin gespannt, ob 'The Scar' mich genauso fesselt, wie vor ca. 10 Jahren 'Perdido Street Station'. Verspüre Vorfreude :)
Bereits qualitätsgeprüft von Euch? Leseerlebniserfahrungen?
#chinamieville #mieville #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #newweird #books #literature #newcrobuzon
2025 book eighteen: China Miéville: The City & The City ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #bookstodon #fiction #ChinaMieville #ebooks #kindle #bookstagram #books2025
Familia eta komunitate mota alternatiboak ZiFian
Zientzia-fikzioak familia eta komunitate mota ugari aztertu ditu, eredu tradizionalei aurre eginez eta gizarte alternatiboak irudikatuz. Hauek dira orainaldian inspirazio iturri izan daitezkeen adibideetako batzuk:
Ursula K. Le Guinen esperimentu komunitarioak
Le Guinek familia eta komunitate egitura ezberdinak aztertu zituen bere obran. The Dispossessed eleberrian, gizarte anarkista bat aurkezten du Anarres planetan, non familia biologikoak ez duen hainbesteko garrantzirik, eta antolakuntza kolektiboagoa den. The Left Hand of Darkness lanean, Gueden planetako biztanleak androginoak dira eta sexua alda dezakete; ondorioz, familia-antolaketa guztiz desberdina da, genero-rol finkorik gabea. The Word for World Is Forest (Oihan hitzean mundua bezala euskaratua) eleberrian, gizartea kooperazioan eta indarkeriarik ezan oinarritzen da. Bertan, familia nuklear tradizionalik ez dago, haurren hazkuntza komunala da, eta guraso-rolak ez daude modu hertsian definituta.
Diamond Age-ko phyle-ak (Neal Stephenson)
Eleberri honetan, Stephensonek phyle kontzeptua aurkezten du: lurralde edo ahaidetasun biologikoaren ordez, balioen, interesen edo kulturaren arabera antolatutako komunitate globalak. Phyle-ak klan moderno gisa funtzionatzen dute, kideei hezkuntza, segurtasuna eta egonkortasuna eskainiz, eta mundu postnazional bateko gizarte-antolaketa modu nagusia bihurtzen dira.
Embassytown-eko txanda-gurasoak (China Miéville)
Eleberriak shiftparents (txanda-gurasoak) kontzeptua aurkezten du, familia-egitura ez-konbentzionala, non hainbat guraso-figurak gurasotasuna partekatzen duten. Eredu horrek familia nuklear tradizionalaren aurrean babes komunitarioko eta malgutasunezko eredu bat proposatzen du, giza eta estralurtarren arteko gizarte-harremanak irudikatuz. Hizkuntzak ere paper zentrala du nobelan.
Binti tribua (Nnedi Okorafor)
Binti eleberriko protagonista Lurreko Himba komunitate batetik dator, familia-lotura sendoak eta tradizioan oinarritutako egitura mantentzen dituenetik. Bere bidaian zehar, beste komunitate-forma batzuekin egiten du topo, baita izaki estralurtarrekin ere, elkar-ulermenean eta eraldaketan oinarritutako ahaidetasun sinbiotiko mota bat garatuz.
The Fifth Season-eko comm-ak (N.K. Jemisin)
Comm bakoitzak komunitate estu bat bezala funtzionatzen du, non kide bakoitzak zeregin zehatz bat duen. Egitura hau funtsezkoa da taldearen biziraupenerako, batez ere baldintza apokaliptikoetan. Harreman aniztasun handia dago, eta Jemisinek kasten eta botere-harremanen inguruko lanketa sakona egiten du nobelan.
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