num_pages: 867
description: The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. 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. 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. Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released. 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. The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape. "A work of exhaustive inventiveness...superlative fantasy." - "Time Out". "A well-written, authentically engrossing adventure story, exuberantly full of hocus-pocus...Mieville does not disappoint." - "Daily Telegraph".
language: English
title: Perdido Street Station
titlecomplete: Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
characters: Yagharek, Lemuel Pigeon, Derkhan Blueday, Lin, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, Construct Council, Mr. Motley, Bentham Rudgutter
genres: Weird Fiction, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, New Weird, Horror, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 68349
places: Bas-Lag
series: New Crobuzon
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work), awardedAt: 946713600000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman étranger and Traduction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel), awardedAt: 978336000000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: SF ga Yomitai
category: Best Translated SF of the Year in Japan, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Translated Long Form
publisher: Pan Books