PERDIDO STREET STATION, by China Mieville

(originally posted on October 24, 2006)

My goodness. Mieville's breakout "Weird Fiction" is occasionally imperfect and perhaps a bit too long, but the scope, the imagination, the level of detail and imagery so vivid you could truly smell the rancid air and feel a dark landscape grow even darker is just phenomenal. And maybe I'm just not reading the right SF/F books but it's great to read one so rooted in the modern, even as it's a throwback to an earlier time.