China Miéville's "Perdido" Success

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China Miéville says we shouldn't blame science fiction for its bad readers | TechCrunch

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China Miéville's novel " Perdido Street Station " was published 25 years ago .

The author says science fiction shouldn't be read as a blueprint for the future.

He says it's a mistake to read science fiction as if it’s really about the future: “It's always a reflection.”.

The more high profile it is, the more you’re going to get sub-par stuff coming in, among the other really good stuff.

This, to me, is what happens with all subcultures. It happens with any interesting subculture — when it reaches a certain critical mass, you end up with the really good side that more people have access to it, more people learn about it.

And this happened with science fiction. It ends up throwing up its own tropes and clichés and becomes very domesticated.

Some science fiction writers do think in terms of their writing being either a utopian blueprint or a dystopian warning, I don’t think that’s what science fiction ever is.

The slippage between a utopia and a dystopia is very easy to do, which can lead into a kind of fetishization very, very easily.

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