Perdido Street Station von China Miéville

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 880 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780330534239
Auflage / Bände: Main Market Ed.

A well-written, authentically engrossing adventure story, exuberantly full of hocus-pocus . . . Miéville does not disappoint. Daily TelegraphBrilliantly imaginative urban fantasy on a colossal scale from an award-winning author.

In the sprawling metropolis of New Crobuzon, a stranger arrives with an impossible demand, unleashing an alien terror that will forever change the city and the lives of its inhabitants.<br><br>Winner of the August Derleth award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award,Perdido Street Stationis an imaginative urban fantasy thriller, and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the world of Bas-Lag.<br><br>For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Humans and mutants linger in the gloom beneath the city's chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. Now, inadvertently, something unthinkable has been released, and soon the city is gripped by an alien terror. The fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike.<br><br>As battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings, the urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground. A reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape this gothic tale of magic, technology, and the dark underbelly of a Victorian-esque world. Immerse yourself in China Miéville's masterpiece of weird fiction and steampunk fantasy.

4GBNominiert: Nebula Award Best Novel 2003.Ausgezeichnet: The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2001.Nominiert: BSFA Award for Best Novel 2001.Nominiert: Hugo Award For Best Novel 2002.Nominiert: World Fantasy Awards Best Novel 2001China Miéville lives and works in London. He is a three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice.The City&The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell and Philip K. Dick. His novelEmbassytownwas a first and widely praised foray into science fiction.

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