Perdido Street Station
Arthur C. Clarke Award winner and the manifesto-novel of the New Weird: the book that broke the post-Tolkien template's monopoly and made the city-grotesque mode central to twenty-first-century fantasy.
Series Guide
Bas-Lag
Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council: Miéville's New Weird world of New Crobuzon, the floating city of Armada and revolution on rails.
In the Guide
The Scar
BSFA and Locus winner, widely held the best Bas-Lag book: proof the New Weird could do swashbuckling sweep without surrendering an ounce of strangeness.