Cover of Perdido Street StationPR6063.I265 P47 2003
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Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

Winner of the August Derleth award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Perdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller, and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the world of Bas-Lag. The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants linger in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament an...

First published 2000825 pages
Category
Science Fiction
Priority
Must-Read
Author works
5
Editions known
21
Classification
Dewey (DDC)
[Fic]823.914
Library of Congress (LCC)
PR6063.I265 P47 2003PR6063.I265 P47 2001PR3724.G7 1982PR6063.I265P47 2001
Subjects
Alienation (Social psychology)City and town lifeDissentersDystopiasFICTIONFictionFiction, science fiction, generalGeneralLong Now Manual for CivilizationScience FictionStrangerscollection:otherwise_tiptree_award=honor
This edition
ISBN 9780330467193English
DATE DUE
First published2000
Arthur C. Clarke Award2001
August Derleth Award2001
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel2005
StatusREAD

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