Ian Sudderth reviewed Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Incredible World
5 stars
Started slow and dense and then turns into a rollercoaster. Incredible world-building, can't wait to read the rest of the series.
623 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 2003 by Del Rey/Ballantine Books.
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.
Started slow and dense and then turns into a rollercoaster. Incredible world-building, can't wait to read the rest of the series.