China Miéville · 2000 · Novel
Setting: secondary world (Bas-Lag)
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. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory. Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research.
Source: OpenLibrary
Tags: Long Now Manual for CivilizationFiction, science fiction, generalFictionScience FictionStrangersGeneralDissentersFICTIONAlienation (Social psychology)Dystopias
openlibrary_id: OL8718786W
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