Perdido Street Station

China Mieville

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0345459407 ISBN 13: 9780345459404

Casa editrice: Del Rey, 2003

In the squalid, gothic city of New Crobuzon, a mysterious half-human, half-bird stranger comes to Isaac, a gifted but eccentric scientist, with a request to help him fly, but Isaac's obsessive experiments and attempts to grant the request unleash a terrifying dark force on the entire city. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke, British Fantasy, & British Science Fiction Awards. Reprint.

Recensione:

"[A] phantasmagoric masterpiece . . . The book left me breathless with admiration."
--BRIAN STABLEFORD

"China Miéville'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.

L'autore:

China Miéville is currently reading for his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics. His first novel, King Rat, was published in 1998. He lives in England.
From the Trade Paperback edition.