China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station introduces readers to the world of Bas-Lag, where the boundaries between science, magic, and nightmare dissolve. New Crobuzon, the vast and teeming heart of Bas-Lag, is a city of contradictions—both grotesque and majestic, oppressive yet bursting with restless creativity. In its tangled streets and towering factories, an impossible demand and a rogue scientist’s reckless experiments set a chain of horrors in motion, drawing together a cast of revolutionaries, criminals, artists, and machines to confront an unspeakable threat.