PERDIDO STREET STATION
DESCRIPTION
The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of the world. Humans
and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where
the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries
pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the Parliament and its
brutal militia have ruled here over a vast economy of workers and artists,
spies and soldiers, magicians, junkies and whores.
Now a stranger has arrived with a pocket full of gold and an impossible
demand. And inadvertently, clumsily, something unthinkable is released.
As the city becomes gripped by an alien terror, the fate of millions lies
with a clutch of renegades and outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crimelords
alike. The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground. Battles rage in the
shadows of uncanny architectures. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart,
under the vast chaotic vaults of Perdido Street Station.
EXCERPTS
Chapter One (from the Spanish edition)
AWARDS
- Winner: Arthur C. Clarke Award (2001)
- Winner: August Derleth Award (2001)
- Winner: Premio Ignotus, Best Foreign Novel (2002)
- Winner: Kurd Lasswitz Award, Best Foreign Novel (2002)
- 1st place: Amazon.com Editors' Choice, Fantasy (2001)
- Shortlisted: Nebula Award, Novel (2002)
- Shortlisted: Hugo Award, Best Novel (2002)
- Shortlisted: World Fantasy Award, Novel (2001)
- Shortlisted: James Tiptree, Jr. Award (2000)
- Shortlisted: BSFA Awards, Novel (2000)
- 4th place: Locus Poll Award, Best Fantasy Novel (2001)
PUBLICATION HISTORY
- 2000
- Macmillan (UK)
Hardcover, ISBN 0-333-78172-4
- 2001
- Pan (UK)
Paperback, ISBN 0-330-39289-1
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Amazon.co.uk
- 2001
- Del Rey (US)
Paperback, ISBN 0-345-44302-0
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Amazon.com
- 2001
- La factoría de ideas (Spain)
La estación de la calle Perdido, trans. Carlos Lacasa Martín and Manuel Mata Álvarez-Santullano
Paperback, ISBN 84-8421-463-X
- 2002
- Bastei Lübbe (Germany)
Die Falter: Perdido Street Station 1, trans. Eva Bauche-Eppers
Paperback, ISBN 3-404-23245-3
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Amazon.de
- 2002
- Bastei Lübbe (Germany)
Der Weber: Perdido Street Station 2, trans. Eva Bauche-Eppers
Paperback, ISBN 3-404-24298-X
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Amazon.de
- 2002
- De Boekerij (Netherlands)
Station Perdido, trans. Annemarie van Ewyck
Paperback, ISBN 9-022-53265-8
- 2003
- Laser-Books (Czech Republic)
Nádraží Perdido, trans. Milan Zacek
Paperback, ISBN 80-7193-149-7
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- Havas Poche (France)
trans. Nathalie Mège
Paperback
FURTHER INFORMATION
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