Private: Review: Perdido Street Station
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I've come to China Mieville well after he's established himself as a big hitter in the "weird fantasy" genre. I picked up Perdido Street Station on the recommendation of my best friend, Edmund, and I wasn't disappointed.
Weird fantasy hardly begins to describe the world Mieville weaves - mad scientists, corrupt city states, non-humans in mind-numbing variety (including, no less, insect-men, cactus-people, bird-men, flying goblin-people, water-dwellers, automata to name just a few), flying horrors, drug lords and their especially unpleasant drugs and bizarre physical remakings haunt the polluted steampunk day and night of New Crobuzon in a baroque imagining of ...
