The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world.
It is too late to escape..
And a reckoning is due at the city\'s heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station.
The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings.
Soon the city is gripped by an alien terror – and the fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike.
Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released.
For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores.
Humans and mutants and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night.
The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world
