Shout-out for nihilistic_kid

[yendi]

Regardless of what I think of Miéville (and I do love his interviews), it's never a bad thing to have a high-selling author drop your name (especially right next to Jon Courtenay Grimwood)

And why do I like Miéville's interviews? Because he says things like:

This is another of those areas where I’ve become a self-parody, performing the China-Doesn’t-Like-Tolkien show… My attitude to Tolkien is a matter of record. In short, I admire his neurotically precise world-creation, but I dislike his bucolic romanticisation of pre-industrialism and his moralism. He’s immeasurably better than many of his imitators, of course, but I do think his influence has become something of a bane, a barrier to invention. Thankfully I think that’s shifting.

Comments

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up!

[aki-dreaming.livejournal.com]

Bless you for posting this. I'm going to link to it, since it kind of came up by accident in my journal.