The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are 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 over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released. Soon the city is gripped by an alien terror - and the fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike. The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape. "A work of exhaustive inventiveness...superlative fantasy." - "Time Out". "A well-written, authentically engrossing adventure story, exuberantly full of hocus-pocus...Mieville does not disappoint." - "Daily Telegraph".
1972年出生于英格兰，伦敦政经学院国际法学博士。公认的天才小说家，屡次囊获世界各项奇幻界荣誉：轨迹奖、雨果奖、阿瑟·C.克拉克奖、英国奇幻奖、世界奇幻奖等。被评为21世纪重要的奇幻作家，其特有的怪诞写作风格独树一帜。曾被誉为“幻界卡夫卡”，他的写作风格多半带有诡异幽默感，擅长借助奇境探讨真实人生和社会文化议题。