Series: Bas-Lag

Perdido Street Station is described as "compulsively readable" by The Washington Post Book World and a "work of exhaustive inventiveness ... superlative fantasy" by Time Out. The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans, mutants, and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and...

From the author of Perdido Street Station, an epic and breathtaking fantasy of extraordinary imagination. A colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination. A human cargo bound for servitude in exile... A pirate city hauled across the oceans... A hidden miracle about to be revealed... These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a...

Winner of the 2005 Arthur C. Clarke Award "Miéville moves effortlessly into the first division of those who use the tools and weapons of the fantastic to define and create the fiction of the coming century." – Neil Gaiman The third novel in China Miéville's amazing imaginative sequence focuses on the fabulous city of New Crobuzon. With economic slump and...