Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, prisoners and slaves are being transported to a fledgling colony of New Crobuzon.
When the ship is besieged by pirates, the senior officials are executed, and surviving passengers are brought to a floating city constructed upon the hulls of pirated ships, a place whose leaders harbor a sinister agenda..
Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, prisoners and slaves are being transported to a fledgling colony of New Crobuzon