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British author china mievilles novel perdido street station 2000, written in the weird fiction and fantasy genres, is the first of a trilogy of novels set in the same fictional world. If perdido street station is an innercity dark fantasy steampunk horror novel, and the scar is a nautical lovecraftian pirate adventure. The metropolis of new crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Doorstopper steampunk fantasy from the author of king rat 1999. Perdido street station by china mieville, read by jonathan oliver. Jul 29, 2003 perdido street station ebook written by china mieville. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet. Perdido street station by china mieville overdrive rakuten. China mieville 2000 perdido street station part 04 audiobook.
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