Perdido Street Station
China Miéville · 2000
Mieville launched New Weird with this massive, grotesque, magnificent novel set in Bas-Lag, a city that seems to have swallowed every genre and metabolized them into something new. A slake-moth crisis, a renegade scientist, a city that breathes.
The case against
Miéville never met an adjective he could refuse. Bas-Lag gets built brilliantly and then built some more; the slake-moths take two hundred pages to arrive, and the climax punishes nearly every character the novel spent chapters making likable, Lin worst of all. World-building as compulsion, plot as afterthought, the word 'puissant' recurring past the point of parody.
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