
He published his PhD thesis on Marxism and international law as a book in 2005. He stood for Regent's Park and Kensington North for the Socialist Alliance in the 2001 United Kingdom general election, gaining 1.2% of votes cast. He was formerly a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 2013 became a founding member of Left Unity. Miéville is active in anti-capitalist politics in the United Kingdom and has previously been a member of the International Socialist Organization (US) and the short-lived International Socialist Network (UK). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015. During 2012–13, he was writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago. His novel Perdido Street Station was ranked by Locus as the 6th all-time best fantasy novel published in the 20th century. He holds the record for the most Arthur C Clarke Award wins (three). Clarke Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award and World Fantasy Awards.

Miéville has won numerous awards for his fiction, including the Arthur C. He often describes his work as weird fiction and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird.

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (2017)Ĭhina Tom Miéville FRSL ( / m i ˈ eɪ v əl/ mee- AY-vəl born 6 September 1972) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. Short-story writer, novelist, essayist and comic book author
