Join the PS! Book Club on August 21st at 7:00 p.m. when we discuss The City & the City, the gripping genre bending police procedural novel by bestselling author China Mieville. This 2010 Hugo Award winner for Best Novel features Inspector Tyador Borlú, of the Extreme Crime Squad in the city-state of Besźel. He investigates the murder of Mahalia Geary, a foreign student found dead in a Besźel street. He soon learns that Geary had been involved in the political and cultural turmoil involving Besźel and its “twin city” of Ul Qoma, which each occupy the same geographical space.
China Tom Miéville, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), born 6 September 1972, is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as ‘weird fiction’ and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird.
Miéville has won numerous awards for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award and World Fantasy Awards. He holds the record for the most Arthur C Clarke Award wins (three). His novel Perdido Street Station was ranked by Locus as the 6th all-time best fantasy novel published in the 20th century. During 2012–13, he was writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015.