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If you take something like Cthulhu in Lovecraft, for example, it is completely incomprehensible and beyond all human categorization. But in the game Call of Cthulhu, you see Cthulhu’s “strength,” “dexterity,” and so on, carefully expressed numerically. There’s something superheroically banalifying about that approach to the fantastic. On one level it misses the point entirely, but I must admit it appeals to me in its application of some weirdly misplaced rigor onto the fantastic: it’s a kind of exaggeratedly precise approach to secondary world creation.

Interview with Joan Gordon http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/mievilleinterview.htm

Источник: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 27 (p. 312)

Источник: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 24 (p. 296)

Источник: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 22 (p. 276)

Источник: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 239)

Источник: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 238)

Источник: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 15 (p. 213)

Источник: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 10 (p. 172)

Источник: Embassytown (2011), Chapter “Formerly, 1” (p. 53)

Источник: “And there aren’t any.”
“Mmm,” I said. “Awkward.”
“That’s defeatist talk. I’ll cobble something together. A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
Источник: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 0.3 (p. 37)

Источник: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 0.3 (p. 29)