I may have to subscribe to the Guardian. Any paper with their level of real news coverage, and that has time for lots of Pullman and Mieville is OK with me. Hell, I subscribe to all their RSS feeds (well, OK, not the Sports or Football ones, I admit) and read most of the stuff, so I probably ought to be paying.
I just don’t want all those dead trees.
Anyway, speaking of the Guardian and Mieville, there’s an interesting little miscellany from him there, purporting to be an interview.
This was the knock-out bit for me, and ironically it’s not Mieville, but Mieville quoting Gramsci.
There’s a phrase Antonio Gramsci uses which sounds highfalutin but it lives with me. ‘The fact that there is no need for people to die of starvation and that people are dying of starvation is a fact of some importance one would think.’
(And if you don’t already have them, you really should get King Rat, Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and The Iron Council. If you haven’t read at least a couple of these you are 1) missing a really good read, and 2) not going to be able to talk with the SF literati about The New Weird.)
