It’s been a long time since I’ve lost myself in a book as I did in Perdido Street Station. . . . High fantasy jammed up against gritty realism, a tender love story (albeit with an insect-woman) elbow-to-elbow at the bar with gothic horror, odd stews of medieval and modern technology, tremendous social scope and fascination with the individual; not quite science fiction, not quite fantasy, with fillips of horror, high adventure, intrigue. . . . [It] does not have something for everyone, it has lots for everyone. Reading it, I rediscovered my own fascination with stories.”

—Fantasy and Science Fiction

“Precise and rich prose . . . In the tradition of Wyndham, Lewis, Alasdair Gray, and Mervyn Peake, Miéville pulls off the most impressive act of narrative ‘subcreation’ in ages. . . . How ultimately true and pertinent to all that we hold dear are the people and issues and living conditions that we encounter in this skewed mirror.”

—The Washington Post Book World

“Amazing . . . It is exhilarating, sometimes very moving, occasionally shocking, always humane and thought-provoking. Its exuberant and unflagging inventiveness, as well as the strong narrative, keep up interest throughout. . . . An astonishing novel, guaranteed to . . . enthrall.”

—Times Literary Supplement (London)

“It is the best steampunk novel since Gibson and Sterling’s.”

—JOHN CLUTE

“[A] PHANTASMAGORIC MASTERPIECE . . .
THE BOOK LEFT ME BREATHLESS WITH ADMIRATION.”

—BRIAN STABLEFORD

“New Crobuzon combines equal parts Dickens and Kafka, Dick and Cronenberg to generate 700-odd pages of moving freak show, united into a single urban organism through the matter-of-fact deadpan of Miéville’s assured narration. Perdido Street Station combines audacious invention with surprising detail and grace, and gives a complex amalgam of grotesque and mundane without flinching or smirking.”

—City Paper (Philadelphia)

“[This] darkly imaginative and complex story whirls along to its final resolution with the reader’s own imagination locked in tow.”

—The Anniston Star

“An astonishing fantasy tale that is a must reading . . . Creative, satirical, and witty . . . Fans of epic fantasy will reread this classy tale many times over.”

—Booksnbytes.com

“AUDACIOUSLY IMAGINED . . .
AN IMPRESSIVE AND ULTIMATELY PLEASING EPIC.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Wiggy, weird, and way cool . . . Perdido Street Station is set in a world that is a cross between Blade Runner and the London of Charles Dickens. And it’s populated with characters borrowed from mythologies from all over the world that are given China’s own unique twist. . . . Considering that Perdido Street Station is only his second book, he’s a writer to keep our eyes on.”

—WARREN JAMES
Hour 25

“The most exciting, enthralling novel I have read in a long time. It is about everything important—love, work, hope, worlds we knew were out there but needed a writer like Miéville to show them to us. His imagination is vast, his talent volcanic. Read this book. It just might be a masterpiece.”

—JONATHON CARROLL

“China Miéville’s cool style has conjured up a triumphantly macabre technoslip metropolis with a unique atmosphere of horror and fascination.”

—PETER F. HAMILTON

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