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Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville
Perdido Street Station

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ISBN13: 9780345443021
ISBN10: 0345443020



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Winner of the August Derleth and Arthur C. Clarke Awards - A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who "has reshaped modern fantasy" (The Washington Post)

"[China Miéville's] fantasy novels, including a trilogy set in and around the magical city-state of New Crobuzon, have the refreshing effect of making Middle-earth seem plodding and flat." The New York Times


The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies.

Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released.

The city is gripped by an alien terror. The fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades. A reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of brick and wood and steel under the vaults of Perdido Street Station.

It is too late to escape.

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"Primal awe and erudite references have always mingled in Miéville's work — along with a healthy dose of pulp playfulness." The New Yorker

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"Flawlessly plotted and relentlessly, stunningly inventive: a conceptual breakthrough of the highest order." Kirkus Reviews

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"Perdido Street Station is brimming with enchantment. Written in intense, evocative prose, set in Dickensian New Crobuzon, peopled with characters of Boschian demeanor and diversity….the book flourishes and shuffles the conventions of science fiction, fantasy, and horror." Tordotcom

About the Author

China Miéville is the author of numerous books, including This Census-Taker, Three Moments of an Explosion, Railsea, Embassytown, Kraken, The City & The City, and Perdido Street Station. His works have won the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (three times). He lives and works in London.

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Shelly Caldwell , January 20, 2012
Probably the strangest and most memorable book I read last year. Very involved and disturbing - scary yet funny - all in all WONDERFUL. Mr. Mieville has the most amazing imagination and vocabulary! I'm now in the process of reading everything he's ever written. But PDS is still my favorite (although The City and The City was a very close second). I highly recommend his work.

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h , September 22, 2011 (view all comments by h)
This is fantasy that transcends the designation and attracts those not yet initiated into the genre. Mieville is always inventive, his voice urgent, and his imagined worlds far from our own yet reflections on our own.

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Mark Joseph , September 02, 2011 (view all comments by Mark Joseph)
I love Tolkien as much as anyone, but sometimes you want something different. Might as well start at the top--this book is maximally different from The Lord of the Rings. Both are "fantasy" novels, but that is the extent of their similarities. Creator and perfecter of the sub-genre "New Weird," Perdido has everything--a heart-poundingly scary plot, brilliant characterization, more moving parts than any novel I can think of, more than one "I didn't expect that" moment, a fair amount of political commentary and/or subtext, and lots and lots of *weird*. This is one of my favorite books ever, and I'd only have one caveat for the potentially interested reader--if you can't handle weird (especially one central romance between a human man and an insect-headed woman), the book may prove a bit too rich for your tastes.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780345443021
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
02/27/2001
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Series info:
Bas-Lag
Pages:
752
Height:
1.40IN
Width:
6.10IN
Thickness:
1.25
Series:
Bas Lag
Series Number:
1
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
2000
Series Volume:
1
UPC Code:
2800345443023
Author:
China Miéville
Subject:
Fantasy fiction
Subject:
Dissenters
Subject:
Strangers.
Subject:
Science Fiction and Fantasy-Fantasy
Subject:
Alienation

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