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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm45532466
035 $a(NNC)4085012
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dOCLCQ$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aPR6063.I265$bP47 2001
082 00 $a823/.914$221
100 1 $aMiéville, China.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb98062876
245 10 $aPerdido Street Station /$cChina Miéville.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDel Rey,$c2001.
300 $a710 pages :$b1 map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aIn New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none - not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.".
520 8 $a"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 encountered. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.".
520 8 $a"While Isaac becomes more and more consumed with his experiments, one of his lab specimens demands special attention; a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger - and more voracious - 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 ..."--BOOK JACKET.
655 7 $aFantasy fiction.$2gsafd
852 00 $bglx$hPR6063.I265$iP47 2001