Perdido Street Station

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.

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.

In the sprawling, chaotic city of New Crobuzon, where magic and machinery intertwine, a dangerous experiment unleashes a nightmare that threatens to consume everything. Isaac, a rogue scientist, unwittingly sets a monstrous force loose and must rally an unlikely band of outcasts to confront it. As the city teeters on the brink of destruction, the battle delves into the darkest corners of human ambition and the eerie beauty of the bizarre. China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station is a spellbinding journey into a world teeming with grotesque wonders, savage horrors and the relentless pulse of revolution.

In the sprawling, chaotic city of New Crobuzon, where magic and machinery intertwine, a dangerous experiment unleashes a nightmare that threatens to consume everything. Isaac, a rogue scientist, unwittingly sets a monstrous force loose and must rally an unlikely band of outcasts to confront it. As the city teeters on the brink of destruction, the battle delves into the darkest corners of human ambition and the eerie beauty of the bizarre. China Miéville's Perdido Street Station is a spellbinding journey into a world teeming with grotesque wonders, savage horrors and the relentless pulse of revolution.

The story begins when Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, a human scientist, and Lin, his alien lover, receive a visit from an exiled Garuda named Yagharek. Garuda are winged creatures for whom flight is as necessary as breathing. Yagharek, for reasons he cannot quite explain, has lost his wings, and commissions Isaac to restore them. In accepting this commission, Isaac sets in motion a complex plot encompassing a potent hallucinogen called “dreamshit,” a deadly, moth-like insect that feeds on dreams, and assorted denizens of the city’s colorful — and dangerous — underworld. Dominating this vast canvas is New Crobuzon itself, a profusely detailed metropolis.

Welcome to New Crobuzon, the city at the center of China Mieville’s magisterial novel, Perdido Street Station. First published in 2000, Perdido was Mieville’s second novel (after King Rat) and the first to be set in the fictional universe of Bas-Lag. The book’s impact was powerful and immediate. It received, among other honors, the British Fantasy Society and Arthur C. Clarke awards for Best Novel, and announced the arrival of a major new voice in the literature of the fantastic. The story begins when Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, a human scientist, and Lin, his alien lover, receive a visit from an exiled Garuda named Yagharek. Garuda are winged creatures for whom flight is as necessary as breathing. Yagharek, for reasons he cannot quite explain, has lost his wings, and commissions Isaac to restore them. In accepting this commission, Isaac sets in motion a complex plot encompassing a potent hallucinogen called “dreamshit,” a deadly, moth-like insect that feeds on dreams, and assorted denizens of the city’s colorful — and dangerous — underworld. Dominating this vast canvas is New Crobuzon itself, a profusely detailed metropolis as authentic and convincing as any you will ever encounter. Like the city it so lovingly describes, Perdido Street Station offers delight and astonishment on virtually every page. The product of a powerful, wide-ranging imagination and a gritty, thoroughly urban sensibility, it remains one of the most significant fantasies of the modern era. You have never read anything like it. You probably never will.

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.

Please be aware that these copies have slight damages and/or blemishes and we will not be accepting refunds. Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavoury deal is stranger to no one - not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before encountered. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. Soon an eerie metamorphosis will occur that will permeate every fibre of New Crobuzon - and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it evokes. New Crobuzon Series Book 1

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.