CIMG3382 China Mieville and me at the book signing at Readercon 2006

China Mieville and me at the book signing at Readercon 2006

CIMG3382 China Mieville and me at Mieville’s book signing at Readercon 2006

CIMG3382 I got my picture taken with China Mieville at his book signing at Readercon 2006. I brought my copy of Perdido Street Station for him to sign. A volunteer that was managing the line at the signing commented that my book was well worn, and she meant it in a complimentary way, implying that I must have read it many times. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that I’m just rough with books; I had read it exactly once. Most of the reading I’ve been doing in the last couple of decades was while exercising on a stairmaster. My methods for securing books to a piece of exercise equipment leave them looking rather worn.

Readercon was a literary science fiction convention that took place in Burlington, Massachusets, July 2006.