“Behind her, for a moment, the sky was very full: an aerostat droned in the distance; tiny specks lurched erratically around it, winged figures playing in its wake like dolphins round a whale; and in front of them all another train, heading into the city this time, heading for the centre of New Crobuzon, the knot of architectural tissue where the fibres of the city congealed, where the skyrails of the militia radiated out from the Spike like a web and the five great trainlines of the city met, converging on the great variegated fortress of dark brick and scrubbed concrete and wood and steel and stone, the edifice that yawned hugely at the city’s vulgar heart, Perdido Street Station.”

China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station brought the New Weird into mainstream consciousness, blending industrial grime, baroque imagination, and unrelenting strangeness in a genre-defying masterpiece. Winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award, the novel introduces readers to the richly imagined world of Bas-Lag, where the boundaries between science, magic, and nightmare dissolve.

New Crobuzon, the vast and teeming heart of Bas-Lag, is a city of contradictions—both grotesque and majestic, oppressive yet bursting with restless creativity. In its tangled streets and towering factories, an impossible demand and a rogue scientist’s reckless experiments set a chain of horrors in motion, drawing together a cast of revolutionaries, criminals, artists, and machines to confront an unspeakable threat.

Michael Moorcock hailed Perdido Street Station as “a massive and gorgeously detailed parallel-world fantasy,” and Miéville delivers exactly that—an urban epic where the surreal and the visceral collide, where beauty emerges from decay and wonder from the grotesque. More than a novel, Perdido Street Station is a testament to the boundless possibilities of speculative fiction, a feverish vision that lingers long after the final page.

We’ve been working on Perdido Street Station for over two years, but my connection to the novel goes back more than twenty. Around 2003, while at university, I spotted a paperback copy on the shelf at Universal Bookstore, one of the only two bookstores in Guyana. Intrigued by the artwork on the cover and the blurb at the back, I picked it up and it changed the course of my life.

After finishing it, I sought out discussions online and found Cheryl Morgan’s Emerald City, which introduced me to a trove of contemporary authors. I eventually did some website work for Cheryl, and, as way leads to way, it led to a freelance career designing and building websites for science fiction and fantasy authors and publishers after graduation. That evolved into fifteen years as a project manager, after which I transitioned into publishing myself, bringing my journey full circle.

That paperback, pictured at the top of this page, has traveled with me through seven moves, across three countries and two continents over twenty years, and remains one of the most treasured books in my collection.

Another is a second copy of Perdido Street Station, a gift from my brother—signed and dedicated to me when he met China Miéville in Toronto in 2011.

The inscription reads: “This urban nightmare I hope entertains!” It did. The first time in 2003, and a few times since. And it will again in 2026. Stick around.

Edition Details

Perdido Street Station will be published in three states: Collector’s, Deluxe and Lettered, with the Deluxe and Lettered Editions signed by the author. The edition will feature:

• Printing on luxurious paper, upgraded on the Deluxe and Lettered states.
• Durable, Smyth-sewn bindings with a ribbon marker and head and tail bands.
• Premium binding materials, upgraded on the Deluxe and Lettered states (see our editions of Foundation and Solaris for examples).
• Handmade slipcases/enclosures included at no additional cost.
• Hand binding by Ludlow Bookbinders.
• All artwork included in all states.

About China Miéville

China Miéville is a New York Times-bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction. In 2015 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2018 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction. His work has won various prizes, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award and the British Science Fiction Award, and has been shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. He has previously been Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Warwick University, an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, and Writer-in-Residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL. He is one of founding editors of the journal Salvage.

Upcoming Books

Beyond Perdido Street Station, we have several titles in development. Here are a few. Subscribe to our newsletter below for updates.

• Weird. - The second volume in our ongoing collection of weird fiction, edited by S.T. Joshi, is our next publication.
• Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana will be published immediately after Weird Volume 2. 
• Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire, the sequel to our edition of Foundation, is also expected this year.
• Octavia Butler’s Kindred will be coming next year along with Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, which we’re co-publishing with Subterranean Press.