Perdido Street Station - Softcover

Miéville, China

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330392891 ISBN 13: 9780330392891

Verlag: Tor, 2001

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"[A] phantasmagoric masterpiece . . . The book left me breathless with admiration."--BRIAN STABLEFORD "China Mieville's cool style has conjured up a triumphantly macabre technoslip metropolis with a unique atmosphere of horror and fascination."--PETER HAMILTON "It is the best steampunk novel since Gibson and Sterling's."--JOHN CLUTE "From the Trade Paperback edition."

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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

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• Verlag: Tor
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0330392891
• ISBN 13: 9780330392891
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 880