Perdido Street Station

623 pages

English language

Published Nov. 6, 2003 by Del Rey/Ballantine Books.

ISBN:: 9780345459404
OCLC Number:: 52815141

(1 review)

In the squalid, gothic city of New Crobuzon, a mysterious half-human, half-bird stranger comes to Isaac, a gifted but eccentric scientist, with a request to help him fly, but Isaac's obsessive experiments and attempts to grant the request unleash a terrifying dark force on the entire city.

15 editions

Ian Sudderth reviewed Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Incredible World

5 stars

Started slow and dense and then turns into a rollercoaster. Incredible world-building, can't wait to read the rest of the series.

Subjects

Strangers
Dystopias
Dissenters
City and town life
Fiction