China Mieville has such a rich imagination that the locations where he sets his works are a character in themselves. The city of Crobuzon is no exception. It is a rusting out, miserable run-down place populated with a multitude of peoples centered in various areas of the city. But most, traveling the city’s version of mass transport, will pass through Perdido Street Station.
The story begins with a renegade scientist’s quest to help a tortured Garuda regain his lost wings and return to the air. But the story quickly devolves into a quest to stop creatures that are terrorizing the city and leaving a wake of mindless bodies in their wake.
Complex, depressing at times, maddening at others, never boring.
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