Quote by: China Mieville

Oh, bullshit. This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of the tongue or misuse of sacred cutlery, and bang, he's on the grill. Do you ever think about how self-aggrandising that stuff is? Oh, all those stories pretending to be about cultural insensitivity, , but they're really all about how ridiculous natives overreact. Avice, we must have made of fuckups like that over the years. Think about it. Just like visitors did when they first met our lot, on Terre. And for the most part we didn't lose our shit, did we?


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Author Bio


  • NameChina Mieville
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • BornSeptember 6, 1972
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist