Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleRead about another entry on the list.
China Miéville’s introduction to the fictional world of Bas-Lag features a setting so deeply and diversely drawn that it might arguably be called the novel’s main character. The city of New Crobuzon is a sprawling megalopolis teeming with the weird and fantastical, a place where magic and steampunk-like technology exist side-by-side with inter-dimensional alien minds and artificial intelligences. The plot takes on everything from art to government corruption to organized crime, a story as psychedelically panoramic as the city in which it takes place, a world that imagines all manner of weirdness and somehow finds a place for it all.
Perdido Street Station is among Matthew Kressel's five favorite "fantasy novels with fantastic, awe-inspiring settings" and Willow Palecek's five top fantastic cities.
--Marshal Zeringue
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