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  • By: China Mieville
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
  • Length: 31 hrs
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (111 ratings)

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By: China Mieville
Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
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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. 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 fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.

While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger—and more consuming—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.

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Critic Reviews

"China Miéville's cool style has conjured up a triumphantly macabre technoslip metropolis with a unique atmosphere of horror and fascination." (Peter Hamilton)
"It is the best steampunk novel since Gibson and Sterling's." (John Clute)

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unusual and captivating

Beautifully narrated, with so many fantastical creative voices for a different, unweildy, strange story. Not much of an ending but a very adventurous ride.

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So bad... I must be the odd man out...

I have no idea why others thought this was good or that it even deserved a second book. Just terrible and the reader... so bad.

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Spectacular!!!

The Weaver is by far one of the most interesting and terrifying creatures! Godsdamn this was a fantastic read!

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A unique story with incredibly detailed atmosphere

The blurb for this story really leaves a lot to the imagination and a potential listener or reader might find themselves unsure if it is for them. This is an incredible story which highlights the folly of human ignorance that presents very dire consequences with the opportunity for redemption.

The surroundings and atmosphere is written in great detail. You have magic, science, alchemy, advanced steam/gun powder technology, inhabitants of many different alien like species, interdimensional beings and an oppressive ruthless government all packed into a sprawling plague ridden Londonesque city. Look at the game dishonored, that's kind of how visualise it. The characters are fleshed out and all so unique.

An excellent first entry to a series I'm now 100% invested in seeing through.

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Brilliant from start to finish!

Eagerly searching out more titles both written by China Mieville & narrated by Jonathan Oliver! Brilliant!

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Awful performance

Reader so unpleasant that I actively switched my brain off. Couldn’t last longer than 40 minutes. Unpleasant cadence, rhythm and emHASIS on the wrong syLLabLES mean that You feel like he’s yelling random words at you.

Probably a great story, won’t finish listening.

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narration that doesnt hold back

an exciting and brutal story. Miellville is unrelenting. the narrator takes it to a new level, i was a bit taken back at first by the range of vocies for the different races, but quickly was swooped into the world

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Excellent book. I am going to read the whole China

Also, the reader is very good too, keeps you entertained all the way through the book

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Distilled Fantasy.

Vast, rich, magnificent and enthralling. Jonathon Oliver and China Mieville superb. Is there any art work?

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Beautifully Grotesque in all the best ways.

This book was recommended to me when I was searching for good "monster fight" books and I'm glad to say it was a fantastic read. The voice actor was great and China Mieville did an amazing job dragging you into his world of perversion and grime in a way I've never experienced before. absolutely buying the next book and cannot recommend this one enough to those interested in some of the stranger worlds scifi writers can create.

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