Title: Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon #1)
Author: China Miéville
Publisher: Del Rey
Year: 2000/2003
640 pages
As always, wonderful world-building, terrific descriptions, great characters, heavy internal parallelism, and a fine narrative voice. There's some unresolved moral ambiguity, and a character or two fades away non-threateningly at the end, but otherwise tightly constructed. Lovecraft plus Stephenson, perhaps, with much invocation of Victorian/steampunk scientific laboratories, both in reality and as envisioned by Stephenson. Miéville does a great deal with the meaning of wings, and sex with bug-ladies.
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