Perdido Street Station

, #1

623 pages

English language

Published March 17, 2003 by Ballantine Del Rey.

ISBN:
978-0-345-45940-4
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4 stars (20 reviews)

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one--not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who 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 encountered. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. Soon an eerie metamorphosis will occur that will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon--and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it evokes.

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2 stars

Perdido Street Station is a slow burn, so slow in fact that people would find it really boring. China Miéville has spent a lot of time thinking about the world of New Crobuzon in great detail and then goes on to explain every aspect of it. While it does get rather technical and scientific, Miéville’s writing style was enjoyable enough to keep me going (a lesser writer I would have quit 300 pages in). The stunning settings of the seedy New Crobuzon, along with the well-crafted writing was the saving grace of this book.

New Crobuzon is a beautiful city, mixing many elements of Steampunk and Fantasy to create the authors very own version of London. After reading China Miéville’s book The City and The City, I knew that this author did define the weird genre; his imagination of the interlocking cities was so complex it was hard to keep …

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Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Science-Fiction
  • Steampunk
  • Horror
  • Urban Fantasy