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Laddar... Perdido Street Station (urspr publ 2000; utgåvan 2003)av China Mieville (Författare)
VerkdetaljerPerdido Street Station av China Miéville (2000)
  
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 Perdido Street Station is a well written and absorbing story aimed at breaking the rules for a number of different fantasy concepts.
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 ... Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Perdido Street Station is a very different beast though. I expected it to be gritty and gory (and was looking forward to it) but the amount of grit and gore far exceeded my expectations. As another reviewer put it: The grittiness of New Crobuzon permeates every single sentence of the book. At some point, it got a bit too much for my taste. I was longing for some light, something beautiful, some comic relief, but it wouldn't come.
Maybe it only got hard to handle because I developed a nasty flu about halfway through the book and the book's themes lend themselves far too well to fever dreams... I should've known better to continue reading the story through that but that just shows that the book was really hard to put away.
Anyway, I loved the setup of the city as well as some of the more unusual characters. Some of the developments felt a little forced or unconvincing