Description
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 Mieville'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.
Brilliantly imaginative urban fantasy on a colossal scale from an award-winning author
About the Author
China Mieville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and The Scar). The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell (The Times) and Philip K. Dick (Guardian). The richly imagined Bas-Lag world is the setting for the novels Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council.
Reviews
A well-written, authentically engrossing adventure story, exuberantly full of hocus-pocus . . . Mieville does not disappoint. * Daily Telegraph *
A work of exhaustive inventiveness . . . superlative fantasy. * Time Out *
Awards
Winner of The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2001 (UK). Short-listed for Nebula Award Best Novel 2003 (UK) and BSFA Award for Best Novel 2001 (UK) and Hugo Award For Best Novel 2002 (United States) and World Fantasy Awards Best Novel 2001 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9780330534239
Author China Mieville
Format Paperback
Page Count 880
Imprint Pan Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 556g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 133mm * 53mm
