Winner of the August Derleth award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award,Perdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller,and the first of China Mi茅ville's novels set in the world of Bas-Lag.The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants linger in 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.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9780330534239Number of pages: 880Weight: 556 gDimensions: 197 x 133 x 53 mm
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A well-written,authentically engrossing adventure story,exuberantly full of hocus-pocus...Mi茅ville does not disappoint.A work of exhaustive inventiveness...superlative fantasy.
China Mi茅ville
Author,visionary,revolutionary. London born fantasy author China Mi茅ville is a gifted creative chameleon and a favourite with Waterstones'readers. His impressively varied body of work includes fantasy novels: Perdido Street Station,The Scar and Iron Council (known collectively as The Bas Lag Trilogy),Railsea,Embassy Town and Un Lun Dun as well as the existential thriller,The City and the City and novellas The Last Days of New Paris and This Census-Taker.
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