China Miéville's Perdido Street Station to Receive Lavish Folio Society Hardcover

China Miéville's Perdido Street Station is easy 1 of the astir critically acclaimed phantasy novels of the past respective decades, arsenic good arsenic a seminal introduction successful the "weird fiction" subgenre. That makes the publication a earthy acceptable for The Folio Society's ever-growing room of deluxe hardcovers.

Just successful clip for the book's 25th anniversary, The Folio Society volition people a monolithic 707-page hardcover variation of Perdido Street Station. The publication includes a caller afterword by Miéville and a caller bid of illustrations by creator Doug Bell. Bell's artwork includes 8 achromatic and achromatic section opening images, 12 full-color illustrations, and a elaborate representation of the metropolis of New Crobuzon.

IGN tin exclusively debut immoderate of the artwork featured successful Perdido Street Station, including the map. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Here's the authoritative statement for Perdido Street Station:

In the sprawling, chaotic metropolis of New Crobuzon, wherever magic and machinery intertwine, a unsafe experimentation unleashes a nightmare that threatens to devour everything. Isaac, a rogue scientist, unwittingly sets a monstrous unit escaped and indispensable rally an improbable set of outcasts to face it. As the metropolis teeters connected the brink of destruction, the conflict delves into the darkest corners of quality ambition and the eerie quality of the bizarre. China Miéville’s PERDIDO STREET STATION is simply a spellbinding travel into a satellite teeming with grotesque wonders, savage horrors, and the relentless pulse of revolution.

“Having encountered my archetypal Folio Society variation arsenic a kid and been blown distant by the quality and enigma of the text, It has been a large honour to enactment with the Society connected 1 of my ain books,” said Miéville successful a statement. “I’m inactive astonished that thing I wrote volition beryllium portion of this beauteous oeuvre, and grateful to everyone astatine the Society for making the full process specified a pleasure.”

This variation of Perdido Street Station is constricted to 500 copies worldwide and volition beryllium released connected Tuesday, March 18 connected The Folio Society website.

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