- Title:
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Perdido Street Station (MP3)
- Series:
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New Crobuzon #1
- Written by:
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China Miéville
- Read by:
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Jonathan Oliver
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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2
- Duration:
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31 hours 1 minutes
- MP3 size:
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1.35 GB
- Published:
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August 01 2020
- Available Date:
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August 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655685319
- Genres:
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Fiction; Fantasy Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Winner of the August Derleth award, Perdido Street Station is an imaginative fantasy thriller, and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the world of Bas-Lag.
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.
When a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to Isaac from afar, he 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 attention: a brilliantly coloured 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 fibre of New Crobuzon – and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes.
'A well-written, authentically engrossing adventure story, exuberantly full of hocus-pocus ... Miéville does not disappoint.'
Daily Telegraph
'A work of exhaustive inventiveness . . . superlative fantasy.'
Time Out