China Mi騅ille
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Perdido Street Station -- China Mi騅ille - Paperback
WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS - A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who "has reshaped modern fantasy" (The Washington Post)
"[China Miéville's] fantasy novels, including a trilogy set in and around the magical city-state of New Crobuzon, have the refreshing effect of making Middle-earth seem plodding and flat."--The New York Times
The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies. Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released. The city is gripped by an alien terror. The fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades. A reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of brick and wood and steel under the vaults of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape.
Author: China Miéville
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Published: 02/27/2001
Pages: 752
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780345443021
Award: Hugo Award - Nominee
Award: Nebula Awards - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2001 pg. 23
Publishers Weekly 01/08/2001 pg. 52
Booklist 02/15/2001 pg. 1122
Asimov's Science Fiction 10/01/2002 pg. 226
Library Journal 02/15/2001
"[China Miéville's] fantasy novels, including a trilogy set in and around the magical city-state of New Crobuzon, have the refreshing effect of making Middle-earth seem plodding and flat."--The New York Times
The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies. Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released. The city is gripped by an alien terror. The fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades. A reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of brick and wood and steel under the vaults of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape.
Author: China Miéville
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Published: 02/27/2001
Pages: 752
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780345443021
Award: Hugo Award - Nominee
Award: Nebula Awards - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2001 pg. 23
Publishers Weekly 01/08/2001 pg. 52
Booklist 02/15/2001 pg. 1122
Asimov's Science Fiction 10/01/2002 pg. 226
Library Journal 02/15/2001
About the Author
China Miéville is the author of numerous books, including This Census-Taker, Three Moments of an Explosion, Railsea, Embassytown, Kraken, The City & The City, and Perdido Street Station. His works have won the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (three times). He lives and works in London.