Gratz?

I feel like Perdido Street Station needs to be more...something. The architect who built it wasn't trying to build a train station, he was trying to build a god.

That looks a little too much like just a big train station to me.

Also, New Crobuzon has stuff flying around over it all the time. Airships and things. Giant jellyfish.

However! My problems with the conception aside, the art is fantastic.

That's really cool! (It just needs about six inches of wet old newspapers and gargoyle guano to be perfect.)

Wow. That's just...beautiful. If just a little too *clean*--I pictured PSS a lot grimier. But who am I to quibble? That fella's artistic capabilities greatly outstrip mine!

Now lets see him paint "The Scar"

such a great novel, but that's gotta be one of the hardest things to illustrate. I like that artwork, but PSS is so central, and serves such a diverse function in the book, that an image of it can't fully describe the complexity.

This book's definitely on my to-do list and I really dig this artwork, too. I wish there were more pictures.

@Ken Keegan: I looked for more, but couldn't find anything except the British cover of the novel, which also has an image of the station on it. There's also a great cover of the Scar, with a sort of hazy view of the pirate city with one of the balloons floating over it.

deviant art link to large size image is dead :(

Ah just got hooked on those books, great stuff. FInally found the Elric compendium too.

Hm... I really wanted to like that book, but New Crobuzon just came across as some kind of dehumanized, effed-up Ankh-Morpork. I quite like China Mieville from the interviews with him that I've read, so I look forward to see if I enjoy his other books more.

Mieville kind of lost me when he started piling the Marxism on with a shovel. When he referred to shopkeepers as inherently evil, I pretty much Said the Eight Deadly Words about this book, but I kept on to the bitter end.

By the time I finished it, I was kind of rooting for the monster- I was hoping it would eat everybody in the novel.

I loved this book. I hope the artist does more of that world with more of the characters, especially Lin. I had a hard time visualizing her character in my mind. I also really enjoyed the Scar from that series.