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Perdido Street Station

Author: China Miéville
Publisher: New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2003, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st mass market edView all editions and formats
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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.
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Genre/Form: Steampunk fiction
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: China Miéville
ISBN: 0345459407 9780345459404
OCLC Number: 52815141
Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain by Macmillan Pub. in 2000"--T.p. verso.
Awards: August Derleth Award, 2000.
Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2001.
Kurd Lasswitz Preis, 2003: Best Foreign Novel.
Description: 623 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Responsibility: China Miéville.

Abstract:

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.

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