Perdido Street Station (Paperback)

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The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released. Soon the city is gripped by an alien terror - and the fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike. The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape. "A work of exhaustive inventiveness...superlative fantasy." - "Time Out". "A well-written, authentically engrossing adventure story, exuberantly full of hocus-pocus...Mieville does not disappoint." - "Daily Telegraph".

Product Details

• Paperback: 880 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330392891
• ISBN-13: 978-0330392891
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #274,315 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, September 2, 2007

By	Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" - See all my reviews

What a wonderful surprise this book was, seemingly out of nowhere. Take a politically oppressive Victorian type setting. Populate it with multiple races including humans who have to try and get along and work together.

Throw in a steampunk-magic punishment system, for a start.

Then, an adventure and terrifying threat via demons, drugs, and monstrous beasts.

A fabulous world has been built here, with its own mythology.