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 Cr...
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 . . .
A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.
Intricately imagined and deeply upsetting, 'Perdido Street Station' is the first novel set in the invented world of 'Bas-Lag.' My parents recommended this to me, and I read the whole thing on a long b...Intricately imagined and deeply upsetting, 'Perdido Street Station' is the first novel set in the invented world of 'Bas-Lag.' My parents recommended this to me, and I read the whole thing on a long bus trip and then began urging all of my friends to read it. I once described the experience of reading it as being "like having someone smash you in the head with a brick over and over again, but in a good way," and I think that still stands. A great, great book.(展开)
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0 有用 Brendan O'Kane 2010-07-09 21:16:28
Intricately imagined and deeply upsetting, 'Perdido Street Station' is the first novel set in the invented world of 'Bas-Lag.' My parents recommended this to me, and I read the whole thing on a long b... Intricately imagined and deeply upsetting, 'Perdido Street Station' is the first novel set in the invented world of 'Bas-Lag.' My parents recommended this to me, and I read the whole thing on a long bus trip and then began urging all of my friends to read it. I once described the experience of reading it as being "like having someone smash you in the head with a brick over and over again, but in a good way," and I think that still stands. A great, great book. (展开)
1 有用 韬子@Tower 2020-03-21 17:01:08
BY叔你们搞快把这本的译本出了啊。
0 有用 Richard 2024-07-28 06:30:49 加拿大
感觉自己像一只slake moth，抱着这本书贪婪的吮吸着里面的如梦如幻的虚无缥缈。
0 有用 FleshWOBlood 2024-10-26 15:56:43 江苏
被作者的想象力和各种各样的英语词汇震惊了，整本书像是生锈的宫崎骏故事
0 有用 Son of Cain 2024-01-09 00:24:16 江苏
结尾未免有些太黑暗了