Above is a brief interview with my favorite author, China Mieville.

He is so dreamy.

He’s not only a brilliant author who also ran for Parliament, but he’s a giant geek. Excerpt from the Stranger below:

I’ve heard that you were a Buffy fan, and I wanted to ask you how you felt about the announcement that they would be remaking the original Buffy movie.

Good lord! I hadn’t heard about this.

It’s not related to the TV show and Joss Whedon [the creator of Buffy] is not involved.

He isn’t involved? What I suppose I would say is my alarm bells are ringing. Never underestimate the sheer crassness of Hollywood. It’ll probably suck. But you know, how about we don’t go to see it?

I don’t think that will work in geek culture.

I know, but I’m trying to propagate this as a meme in geek culture. How about we don’t go and see it and don’t talk about it incessantly? Because it’s just shit. How about we don’t go see Transformers: Rise of the Fuckin’ Whatevers and then complain about how Michael Bay fucked up our favorite franchise? Because you know what? He’s Michael Bay! Of course he did! Let’s not go there.

I think that’s a great idea, but I don’t know how it’s gonna take off.

You gotta help me viral it. Let’s Not Go. LNG.

You should make a website.

Letsnotgo.com. That’s a brilliant idea. You could have reviews by people who haven’t seen it explaining why you shouldn’t go, and the review could be simply based on the publicity machine.