China Miéville, the critically-acclaimed author of Perdido Street Station and The City & the City and the writer at the forefront of the “new weird” genre, will be in conversation with Associate Professor Joshua Miller at the Helmert Stern Auditorium in UMMA this Thursday at 5:30. With a writer as eclectic as China Miéville, the conversation is certain to be an interesting one. If you want more China Miéville, then there’s a reading Tuesday at 6:00, also in the Helmert Stern Auditorium and a lecture on Wednesday at 5:00 in 1014 Tisch Hall revolving around imagined cityscapes.