Mark Charan Newton

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• 1 J. G. Thomas // Feb 28, 2008 at 9:57 pm

  How many times does China say ‘You know’ in that interview?!

• 2 Mark Newton // Feb 28, 2008 at 10:02 pm

  I never noticed that the first time I watched it!

• 3 Damien G. Walter // Feb 29, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  Nice. Is CM actually that muscular? I’ve never seen him in the flesh and in some pictures he looks really tiny, then in others like this he looks like the Thing.

• 4 Mark Newton // Feb 29, 2008 at 5:28 pm

  Yeah, he’s fairly solid. Seems too softly spoken for the physique. I interviewed him a few years back for a bookchain SF magazine, and he’s a tall chap too, but very nice to talk to.

• 5 Tim // Mar 3, 2008 at 9:02 pm

  yeah, he’s an influence. Fair to say.

• 6 Tim // Mar 4, 2008 at 2:35 pm

  I actually want to write an addendum to that. When I first sat down and said “Okay, I’m going to get serious about this writing thing” five years ago, I spent about two or three years writing things that were competent, but people would read them and say “Ah, yes. You like William Gibson.” It was China that got me out of that rut, and I was happy to spend a little over a year writing things that people read and said “Ah, yes. You like China Mieville.” It’s only in the last year or so that I feel like I’ve found my own stories, but there will always be a debt.

• 7 Mark C Newton // Mar 4, 2008 at 3:21 pm

  I had to strip out my Miéville-ness, since no publishers wanted that kind of stuff anymore in the UK… That made for a fun couple of years! Still, a fine writer indeed.

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