Perdido Street Station
Perdido Street Station is the second novel written by China Miéville, and the first set in New Crobuzon. It was nominated for the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Warning: Plot details follow.
Perdido Street Station opens with the arrival of Too Too Abstract Individual Yagharek Not To Be Respected to New Crobuzon.
Synopsis
Commissions
We then meet Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, an independant scientist, and his khepri girlfriend Lin, a spit-artist. Lin is commissioned to make a statue of the crime boss Motley, who is a hideously remade being. Meanwhile, Yagharek (a garuda) commissions Isaac to restore his wings, which were removed for the crime of choice-theft in the second degree.
Phsyiognomies of flight
Isaac starts his inquiries by trying to find out about the garuda, including going to a freak show with Derkhan Blueday, a member of the Salucus Fields set that Lin hangs around with. He then obtains a large number of flying animals, including a multicoloured larvae intended for a secret and dangerous R&D program. Derkhan is a seditionist, a writer for the illegal magazine Runagate Rampant based in a Dog Fenn slaughterhouse and run by Benjamin Flex. Isaac has a failed visit to the garuda in Spatters, which prompts him to free all his animals (bar the larva) and focus on crisis energy, the core subject of his career. He discovers by accident that the larva likes dreamshit, a new drug on the market, and feeds it (as well as experiencing the drug by accident).
Metamorphoses
A Plague of Nightmares
Councils
The Glasshouse
Crisis
Judgement
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