Perdido Street Station

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Perdido Street Station

Auteur(s): China Mieville

Narrateur(s): John Lee

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Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award

The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies.

Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released.

The city is gripped by an alien terror. The fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades. A reckoning is due at the city’s heart, in the vast edifice of brick and wood and steel under the vaults of Perdido Street Station.

It is too late to escape.

Action et aventure

Aventure

Fantastique

Fiction

Science-fiction

Steampunk

Sincère

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Winner of the August Derleth Award

"Primal awe and erudite references have always mingled in Miéville’s work—along with a healthy dose of pulp playfulness.”—The New Yorker

“Flawlessly plotted and relentlessly, stunningly inventive: a conceptual breakthrough of the highest order.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Perdido Street Station is brimming with enchantment. Written in intense, evocative prose, set in Dickensian New Crobuzon, peopled with characters of Boschian demeanor and diversity . . . the book flourishes and shuffles the conventions of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.”—Tordotcom

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Many of the reviews I read on here before picking this up spoke negatively about how "gross" this book is, and honestly they're not wrong. Miéville describes the monstrous races of New Crobuzon with an unflinching scientific eye. Ever wanted to know how a bug-human hybrid woman has inter-species sex? Too bad, because Miéville is going to fill you in on the mechanics. While this kind of exploration sounds, and often is, rather off-putting, it's also undeniably interesting. Once you get past the initial 'ick' factor you begin to appreciate the fascinating ecosystem that is New Crobuzon.

Miéville's writing is generally excellent. His prose is often baroque and verbose, but in a way that complements the world and the story. Over the top phrases like "psychic effluvia" tend to be endearing rather than distracting. The characters are interesting and well rounded, and the world itself is rendered in ultra high definition. There's a literary depth and quality on display in Perdido Street Station that I don't usually expect from fantasy novels.

I found John Lee's narration to be a little much at first, as he seemed to be over-enunciating in an affected way, but I came to see that this was actually an apt interpretation of the written style. Lee's reading here is top-notch, particularly his dialogue, which really makes these characters jump off the page.

At the end of the day Miéville has created a strange and wondrous world that is worth diving into, not despite, but because of the disgusting abominations that await you there.