Ian Sudderth reviewed Perdido Street Station by China MiƩville
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.
Paperback, 868 pages
Published March 21, 2011 by Pan 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.