writers toward strict generic criteria, a pressure Miéville has clearly succeeded in resisting. But it's the only perspective that really makes sense of SF's growing cultural significance. Through the 20th century, it evolved as a literary tradition in continuous dialogue with the most significant forces shaping that century: science and technology. Now, in the early 21st century, SF provides writers with a rich set of ideas and metaphors to explore the incredible complexity of the modern era. Miéville's fiction is in continual dialogue with the SF tradition, recycling and reshaping it as a vehicle for his own philosophy and beliefs.

The impact of technology was the subject of Miéville's address on the future of the novel. It's a discussion that, within the publishing industry at least, tends to beThe Good News – a magazine of understanding

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