China Miéville

China Miéville (born 6 September 1972 in Norwich) is an English writer of speculative fiction, best known for the Bas-Lag novels beginning with Perdido Street Station and for The City & The City. His work is often placed under the label "weird fiction" and within the New Weird.

He holds the record for most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins, with three, and has also won the Hugo, World Fantasy and Locus awards. He studied social anthropology at Cambridge and took a PhD in international law at the London School of Economics, and is active in left-wing politics and in the magazine Salvage.

In 2024 he co-wrote The Book of Elsewhere with Keanu Reeves, and his novel The Rouse appeared in September 2026.