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Perdido Street Station China Mieville

Perdido Street Station By China Mieville

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville


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Summary

Brilliantly imaginative urban fantasy on a colossal scale from an award-winning author.

Perdido Street Station Summary

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

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 and arcane races throng 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.

Perdido Street Station 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 *

About China Mieville

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.

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GOR003029996
9780330534239
0330534238
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
20110506
880
Winner of The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2001 (UK) Short-listed for Nebula Award Best Novel 2003 (UK) Short-listed for BSFA Award for Best Novel 2001 (UK) Short-listed for Hugo Award For Best Novel 2002 (United States) Short-listed for World Fantasy Awards Best Novel 2001 (UK)
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