Perdido Street Station

Perdido Street Station
- China Miéville, Perdido Street Station, paperback
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to noneâ€”not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.

Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.

While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows largerâ€”and more consumingâ€”by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzonâ€”and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . .

A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Brand Del Rey
Manufacturer Del Rey
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber new18-201510-09-b0058445
ReleaseDate 2003-07-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345459404

Country	USA
Brand	Del Rey
Manufacturer	Del Rey
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber	new18-201510-09-b0058445
ReleaseDate	2003-07-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345459404

Perdido Street Station

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