China Mieville

• China Mieville The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick   It's infuriating to have to choose just one of Dick's works - he is the outstanding figure in SF. In the end I went for Stigmata because I remember how I felt when I put it down. Hollow and beaten. I kept thinking: 'That's it. It's finished. Literature has been finished.'

  Submitted May 6th 10 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• China Mieville Things That Never Happen M.John Harrison   That M. John Harrison is not a Nobel Laureate proves the bankruptcy of the literary establishment.

  Submitted May 5th 10 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• China Mieville The Year of Our War Steph Swainston   Exuberant, incredibly inventive, a blistering debut, and honest-to-god unputdownable.

  Submitted Apr 30th 10 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• China Mieville The Island of Doctor Moreau H.G. Wells   Short, cold, economic and totally unrelenting. An utterly terrifying book, Wells's outstanding achievement by far.

  Submitted Dec 20th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• China Mieville Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte   The greatest work of horror ever. OK, technically there are no monsters or aliens or what-have-you, but there's no way this isn't horror. A book about madness, loneliness, manipulation, class and sex that's more frightening than any tentacled thing Lovecraft could come up with.

  Submitted Dec 15th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• China Mieville The Dark Domain (Dedalus European Classics) Stefan Grabinski   Early in the last century, this shockingly underrated Polish writer saw the horror that haunted modernity. His ghosts and demons don't inhabit graveyard or ruins, but steam trains, electricity cables, and the rapidly growing cities. The antithesis of nostalgic fantasy.

  Submitted Dec 13th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• China Mieville Wanderers and Islanders (Legends of the Land) Steve Cockayne   Steve Cockayne has created something fascinating and strange. It resonates like a sudden memory - one that is intricate, important and moving.

  Submitted Dec 7th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• China Mieville Shriek: An Afterword Jeff VanderMeer   Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humour. Ambergris is one of my favourite haunts in fiction.

  Submitted Jul 27th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• China Mieville Stranger Things Happen: Stories Kelly Link   This small-press short-story collection by a young American writer is a joy - a very tired word, and not one I use lightly. I've not been so moved and affected - and dammit, yes, inspired - by a book for a long time.

  Submitted Jul 15th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• China Mieville Deadstock Jeffrey Thomas   Jeffrey Thomas has done something wonderful.

  Submitted Jul 15th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments