#Perdido Street Station

[leona-florianova]

Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin

#perdido street station #Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin #bas lag #art #my art #sketches

[theoutcastrogue]

"I shall wander for a night and a day. I will retrace the steps that once I made, in the shade of the railways. I will stalk the city’s monstrous geography and find the streets that bore me here, the squat channels in the brick to which I owe my life and self.

I will find the tramps who shared my food, if they are not dead from disease or stabbed for their piss-stained shoes. They became my tribe, atomized and ruined and broken, but still some kind of tribe. …

The noises of New Crobuzon fill my ears. I will follow them, welcome them. I will let them surround me. I will dive into the hot, city life. Under arch and over stone, through the sparse bone forest of the Ribs, into the brick burrows of Badside and Dog Fenn, through the booming industry of Gross Coil. Like Lemuel sniffing for contacts I will retrace all the steps I have made. And here and there, I hope, among the spires and the crammed architecture, I will touch the immigrants, the refugees, the outsiders who remake New Crobuzon every day. This place with bastard culture. This mongrel city. …

All around me will be New Crobuzon, seeping in through my skin."

— China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

#Perdido Street Station #China Miéville #the city speaks #rogues in fiction

[mrkapao]

“I share the streets with aimlessly moving scraps of paper and little whirlwinds of dust, with motes that pass like erratic thieves under eaves and through doors.”

- China Miéville ‘Perdido Street Station’

#perdido street station #china mieville #fantasy #novels #books #quotes

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #Perdido Street Station #China Miéville #Bas-Lag #poll #result: no

[worm-dark]

Reading “Perdido Street Station” rn and the world building is fantastic.

#perdido street station #china mieville #colored pencil #sketch #illustration

[emillysstudio]

China Mieville Bas-Lag trilogy custome made leather dust covers presented in a velvet lined chest.

#china mieville #booksbooksbooks #leatherbound #bookbinding #handmade #fiction #novel #bas-lag #the scar #perdido street station #iron council #steampunk #new weird #weird literature #chest #lock and key #weathered

[charactersmashorpass-2]

"Bear, inventor, dissident, beardy brown man who treats his xeno girlfriend right in canon even after she gets a traumatic brain injury. Great guy, no doubt super snuggly."

(art by @weareallfromearth)

#isaac dan der grimnebulin #perdido street station #smash or pass #tumblr polls

[pcharming7]

Can I just say, the Bas-Lag series by China Mieville is a criminally underrated series of fantasy books. I’ll see people complain about fantasy literature being stale and I lose my mind because Perdido Street Station is just sitting there, waiting.

Waiting for you to read about a corrupt, decaying steampunk city, a spider with human hands who likes scissors, moths that shit nightmares, and the tender romance between a scientist and his girlfriend who has a bug for a head.

#literature #books and literature #bas-lag #Perdido street station #the scar #iron council #china mieville #fantasy #and that’s just the first book #Don’t get me started on Uther Doul and the sea monster from another dimesnsion or I’ll be here all day

[ussalcrabart]

🕷️THE WEAVER🕷️

#art that davis made #perdido street station #china mieville #the weaver

[orbgoo]

bunch of fake book cover thumbnails for various things XD. PLEASE i want to hear feedback which ones are y’all’s faves

#my art #art #control #annihilation #house of leaves #perdido street station

[variantoutcast]

Hi guys I know some of you are fans of China Miéville! I started a read along on StoryGraph for his novel Perdido Street Station. It's my first time reading it (although I read the sequel The Scar last yearish) and my first time hosting a read along on that platform. Feel free to join me & add me on there if you want! Here's the link

#gonna even launch this into public tags please be niceys #perdido street station #china mieville #bookblr #storygraph #i'm going to keep updating the forums I just don't have energy to put them all out 2nite. also I will try and add discussion questions #to more of them so people know what I'm responding to when I post in the forums but you can ignore my discussion questions/derail #gonna q this up so more people see it next week!

[leona-florianova]

Jack Half-a-Prayer

#bas lag #perdido street station #Jack Half-a-Prayer #looking for jake #jack #china mieville #sketches #my art #wanted to finish this sketch for about a month but you know what.. no.. this is ok

[theoutcastrogue]

"The river twists and turns to face the city. It looms suddenly, massive, stamped on the landscape. Its light wells up around the surrounds, the rock hills, like bruise-blood. Its dirty towers glow. I am debased. I am compelled to worship this extraordinary presence that has silted into existence at the conjunction of two rivers. It is a vast pollutant, a stench, a klaxon sounding. Fat chimneys retch dirt into the sky even now in the deep night. It is not the current which pulls us but the city itself, its weight sucks us in. Faint shouts, here and there the calls of beasts, the obscene clash and pounding from the factories as huge machines rut. Railways trace urban anatomy like protruding veins. Red brick and dark walls, squat churches like troglodytic things, ragged awnings flickering, cobbled mazes in the old town, culs-de-sac, sewers riddling the earth like secular sepulchres, a new landscape of wasteground, crushed stone, libraries fat with forgotten volumes, old hospitals, towerblocks, ships and metal claws that lift cargoes from the water.

How could we not see this approaching? What trick of topography is this, that lets the sprawling monster hide behind corners to leap out at the traveller?"

— China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

#China Miéville #Perdido Street Station #rogues in fiction #the city speaks

[amechyofsorts]

Funniest thing to crossover Dungeon Meshi with that nobody definitely has ever done: Bas Lag Cycle

Isaac and Laios would get along.

Can you eat a slake moth? I hope not.

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #bas lag cycle #perdido street station

[mrkapao]

“I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.”

- China Miéville ‘Perdido Street Station’

#perdido street station #china mieville #fantasy #novels #books #quotes

[possiblesword]

Dude where is the Bas Lag fandom. These books are fucking awesome. What are you guys doing.

#its an example of a series with almost TOO MUCH cool worldbuilding #like mieville will introduce the most badass concept as just a one-off or a side note #you think its a checkov's gun but no #its just some idea he shot out without much thought that would be enough by itself to get me to watch or read something otherwise terrible #AND #WORKING CLASS LEFTISM #these books fuck #perdido street station #bas lag #the scar #the iron council