num_pages: 704
description: Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory. Isaac 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 fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger—and more consuming—by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon—and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . . A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.
language: English
title: Perdido Street Station
titlecomplete: Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
characters: Construct Council, Derkhan Blueday, Bentham Rudgutter, Mr. Motley, Lemuel Pigeon, Yagharek, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, Lin
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Weird Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, New Weird, Steampunk
ratings_count: 68359
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: MacMillan