Perdido Street Station - grimoire.party

Paperback, 868 pages

Published 2011 by Pan Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-330-53423-9

(2 reviews)

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.

2 editions

Ian Sudderth reviewed Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (New Crobuzon, #1)

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.

Brantai

rated it

Dec. 28, 2013

Subjects

Strangers
Dystopias
Dissenters
City and town life
Fiction