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Perdido Street Station
Cover of first UK edition
AuthorChina Miéville
IllustratorEdward Miller
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesBas-Lag novels
GenreSpeculative fiction
PublisherMacmillan
Publication date
2000
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages867
ISBN0-333-78172-4
OCLC42912755
Followed byThe Scar 

Perdido Street Station is a novel by British writer China Miéville, published in 2000 by Macmillan. Often described as weird fiction, it is set in a world where both magic and steampunk technology exist. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was ranked by Locus as the 6th all-time best fantasy novel published in the 20th century.[a]

Perdido Street Station is the first of three independent works set in the fictional world of Bas-Lag, and is followed by The Scar and Iron Council.
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