China Miéville ’s maraud into crime fiction , The City And The City , has already ante up off handsomely . It ’s garner the British Science Fiction Association ’s “ good novel ” booty , a Nebula nominating address … and now , his third Arthur C. Clarke Award .
According to the Guardian :
Miéville pronounced himself “ absolutely gobsmacked ” and “ implausibly reward ” to deliver the goods the Arthur C Clarke , an award originally constitute by Clarke himself to help further science fiction in Britain . “ It ’s very different from most of my other book of account , ” said Miéville , who has antecedently won the Arthur C Clarke with more traditional phantasy novels Perdido Street Station and Iron Council . “ It was very much written in an endeavour to be absolutely close to works of offence fable . offence reader will give away a ledger because it has ‘ cheated , ’ and I wanted to write a book that did n’t cheat , that was faithful to crime rules and that if you ’d never translate any fantasy you could cull up . ”
More proof , if any were postulate , that genre - spanning industrial plant can make the most successful , and riveting , works of scientific discipline fiction and fantasy . [ Guardian ]
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