Zane Grey vs. China Miéville
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Zane Grey
1872 – 1939
Zane Grey was an American author. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.
"It was the elision of the weaker element — the survival of the fittest; and some, indeed very many, mothers must lose their sons that way."
China Miéville
1972 – present
China Tom Miéville 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.
"Art’s something you choose to make … it’s a bringing together of … of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. Mor…"