Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.
Isaac 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 fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.
While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger—and more consuming—by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon—and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . .
A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.
Isaac 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 fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.
While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger—and more consuming—by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon—and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . .
A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.
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Urban world-building, boundary-crossing speculative fiction, and dark atmospheric intrigue converge in the sprawling metropolis of New Crobuzon, first introduced in the novel Perdido Street Station. China Tom Miéville established his reputation as a leading exponent of the New Weird movement by blending fantasy, science fiction, and horror while deliberately moving speculative literature away from commercial genre clichés. His fiction challenges traditional boundaries by grounding strange, surreal worlds in complex social and political realities.
Born in Norwich on 6 September 1972, Miéville grew up in Willesden, London, raised by his mother. Before attending university, he spent a year working in Egypt and Zimbabwe. He entered Clare College, Cambridge, in 1991 to study Social Anthropology before going on to earn a PhD from the London School of Economics. His academic work in law and social theory deeply informed his non-fiction, which includes a publication on Marxism and international law as well as his history October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. Alongside his writing, Miéville has been active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party and ran for the House of Commons for the Socialist Alliance. He has taught creative writing as Associate Professor at Warwick University and held positions at Birkbeck, University of London, and Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Describing his work as "weird fiction" in the tradition of early twentieth-century pulp and horror writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Miéville builds dense fictional landscapes characterized by political conflict, urban geography, and linguistic experimentation. Works such as The City & The City feature dual-reality urban environments where political borders and psychological perception shape human behavior, while Embassytown examines alien semiotics and the power of language. His inventive approach to speculative fiction has earned him the Hugo, World Fantasy, Arthur C. Clarke, and British Science Fiction awards, along with fellowships from the Royal Society of Literature and the Guggenheim Foundation.
8 books in catalog
Urban world-building, boundary-crossing speculative fiction, and dark atmospheric intrigue converge in the sprawling metropolis of New Crobuzon, first introduced in the novel Perdido Street Station. China Tom Miéville established his reputation as a leading exponent of the New Weird movement by blending fantasy, science fiction, and horror while deliberately moving speculative literature away from commercial genre clichés. His fiction challenges traditional boundaries by grounding strange, surreal worlds in complex social and political realities.
Born in Norwich on 6 September 1972, Miéville grew up in Willesden, London, raised by his mother. Before attending university, he spent a year working in Egypt and Zimbabwe. He entered Clare College, Cambridge, in 1991 to study Social Anthropology before going on to earn a PhD from the London School of Economics. His academic work in law and social theory deeply informed his non-fiction, which includes a publication on Marxism and international law as well as his history October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. Alongside his writing, Miéville has been active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party and ran for the House of Commons for the Socialist Alliance. He has taught creative writing as Associate Professor at Warwick University and held positions at Birkbeck, University of London, and Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Describing his work as "weird fiction" in the tradition of early twentieth-century pulp and horror writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Miéville builds dense fictional landscapes characterized by political conflict, urban geography, and linguistic experimentation. Works such as The City & The City feature dual-reality urban environments where political borders and psychological perception shape human behavior, while Embassytown examines alien semiotics and the power of language. His inventive approach to speculative fiction has earned him the Hugo, World Fantasy, Arthur C. Clarke, and British Science Fiction awards, along with fellowships from the Royal Society of Literature and the Guggenheim Foundation.
New Crobuzon
New Crobuzon
