I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually ‘Yes’. - China Miéville

Neither dust nor light stirred. It was as if time had been bled dry and given up.

I suppose there were other institutions in Embassytown where the dynamic of the quotidian sustained—some hospitals, perhaps some schools, perhaps houses where shiftparents most deeply loved the children. Whenever any society dies there must be heroes whose fightback is to not change.

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.