In the sprawling gothic city of New Crobuzon, a stranger has come to request the services of Isaac, an overweight and slightly eccentric scientist.
It is too late to escape..
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.
The fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades.
The city is gripped by an alien terror.
And something unthinkable is released.
Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand.
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.
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.
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.
WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C.
But it is an impossible request--that of flight--and in the end Isaac\'s attempts will only succeed in unleashing a dark force upon the city.
In the sprawling gothic city of New Crobuzon, a stranger has come to request the services of Isaac, an overweight and slightly eccentric scientist
