![]() Isaac and his friends kill one of the slakemoths with the aid of a sentient machine known as the Construct Council. The demons refuse to assist and the Weaver soon ends up aiding Isaac. To re-capture the slakemoths, they attempt to enlist the help of demons and the Weaver, a spider-like creature who moves through dimensions, obsessed with patterns and its own peculiar view of beauty. The security forces become aware of the activities of the slakemoths and begin to suppress the various rebellious elements within the city. Motley purchased his slakemoths from the government. With the aid of Derkhan, a journalist and friend of Lin, Isaac discovers that Mr. The slakemoths start to terrorise New Crobuzon, feeding on its inhabitants. Assuming Isaac to be a potential rival in the drug trade, he imprisons Lin, demanding that Isaac return his creatures. After Isaac's slakemoth frees its siblings, Mr Motley discovers Isaac's connection to the slakemoths. Motley has four more of the slakemoths in captivity and harvests their milk to sell as drugs. She is commissioned by Mr Motley, a mob boss, to make a sculpture of him. Isaac's girlfriend Lin is a khepri, an insect-like humanoid and an artist. Isaac, Yagharek and Lemuel resolve to re-capture or destroy it. It escapes after eating the mind of one of Isaac's colleagues, leaving him catatonic. After reaching maturity, it emerges as a monstrous flying beast known as a slakemoth, able to paralyse its victims using hypnotic patterns on its wings. The caterpillar sickens until Isaac accidentally discovers it feeds on a popular hallucinogenic drug. One creature is a large and unusual caterpillar, stolen from a government research lab. Isaac agrees and starts collecting flying creatures for research purposes with the aid of Lemuel Pigeon, a fence with links to the criminal underworld. He is approached by Yagharek, a member of a birdlike species known as garuda, who has had his wings removed as a punishment for an undisclosed crime in his native land. Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is a scientist living in the city of New Crobuzon. A US paperback followed in March 2001 from Ballantine Del Rey. The UK edition was a hardcover, while the Australian version was a trade paperback it featured a cover by Edward Miller and was marketed as a dark fantasy novel. The book was published simultaneously in the UK and Australia in March 2000 by Macmillan. So rather than being a feudal world, it's an early industrial capitalist world of a fairly grubby, police statey kind!". MiƩville described the book as "basically a secondary world fantasy with Victorian era technology. Perdido Street Station is set in the fictional world of Bas-Lag, in the large city-state of New Crobuzon the title refers to a railway station at the heart of the city. ![]()
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