Perdido Street Station
by China Mieville
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Author: China MievilleEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07-29
ISBN: 0345459407
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Del Rey
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- ISBN13: 9780345459404
- Condition: New
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Book Review: "To Heal the Autumnal City"
Summary: 5 Stars
We've all encountered books that do everything but leap from our hands and demand: "Admit me to the canon, for I am a masterpiece." "Perdido Street Station" is like that. Of course most of the time our reply is likely to be "as if!" Not this time. China Mieville's daring book makes the cut.
It's a long intricate novel whose main character is really the city of New Crobuzon itself. It's located on a world, Bas Lag, not quite earth (its moon has two small moons of its own) in a universe not quite this one. Then, imagine a late Victorian London where Babbage had actually built his analytical engines before running out of funds, and imagine it with magic as an academic discipline. And then, too, imagine it plagued with horrific creatures out of Lovecraft, plus a population of what Mr. Mieville calls "Xenians." Among these are sentient creatures with insectile heads and human bodies (the khepri), and human-bird hybrids that can fly, the garuda.
Dickens, Steam Punk, Samuel Delany's "Dhalgren," Poe, and Cordwainer Smith's "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard: All come to mind. And the alien creatures may well remind you of the tales of Jack Vance or (for a newer comparison) Julie Czerneda. But it's probably unfair to keep making these comparisons. Mr. Mieville (not quite 30 when the book was first published) has his own unique vision. At times funny, at times horrific, at times political, at times philosophical, the book is as complicated as the physique of the villain Mr. Motley or the mind of the hero Isaac Grimnebulin. To say more would be to spoil the enjoyment.
Notes and asides: New Yorkers, natives and visitors, should ponder reading a chapter or two by the statue on the grounds of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine at Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St., just south of the building itself.
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