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In May 2012, award-winning fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville spoke to Arc’s editor Simon Ings about Railsea, his delirious and parched recasting of Herman Melville’s epic Moby Dick. This was, effectively, China’s second “sea story“ for Arc: in our launch issue, we had arranged for him to visit Wood’s Hole biological research station in Massachusetts. to meet cephalopods and the men and women who study them and attempt to measure their strange, alien intelligence. You can read about the en