“Very well-written, also very disturbing and harsh.
Perdido Street Station is a transportation hub located in an alien city. Some of the inhabitants are human, while others are various alien species, including the Khepri, who have the bodies of human women but the head of a beetle.
The city is being terrorized by an attack of bad dreams and people who are found unconscious and unresponsive, although physically unharmed. A ragtag team of scientists, artists, and criminals is thrown together to fight the source of this mysterious and creepy epidemic... and a lot of horrible things happen to them.
The alien world where the story takes place is developed in great detail, and is quite original in many respects. Mieville is a very talented writer. However, I felt kind of creeped out and depressed after I finished the book, and I don't really want to go back into that world.”
emilysk wrote this review Wednesday, October 14 2009.
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