China Miéville

China Miéville (born 6 September 1972) is a British author best known for his speculative fiction, which he often categorizes as "weird fiction" and aligns with the New Weird movement. His novels have earned him multiple major awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Hugo Award, and World Fantasy Award; he holds the record for most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins, with three. His novel *Perdido Street Station* was ranked by *Locus* as the sixth-best fantasy novel of the 20th century. Miéville entered comics in 2012, writing 20 issues over four years, most notably the series *Dial H* and its collected editions. He also contributed to *Justice League*. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2015, he was writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in 2012–13. Outside fiction, Miéville is a literary critic and activist in UK left politics, having been a member of the Socialist Workers Party and a founding member of Left Unity; he ran for Parliament in 2001 for the Socialist Alliance.