Perdido Street Station
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Perdido Street Station
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The work Perdido Street Station represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Okanagan Regional Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Perdido Street Station
- Statement of responsibility
- China Miéville
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none -- not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory. Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger -- and more consuming -- by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon -- and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes ..
- Awards note
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- August Derleth Award, 2000.
- Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2001.
- Kurd Lasswitz Preis, 2003: Best Foreign Novel.
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6063.I265
- LC item number
- P47 2000eb
- Literary form
- novels
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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