China Mieville
Perdido Street Station is the first of three books to take place in/around New Crobuzon, a city-state inhabited by cactus people, ladies with scarabs for heads (totally not as gross as you'd think), Remade, humans, and others. Mr. Mieville brings the city and characters to life in gross, beautiful, ugly, touching detail.
The story begins with a scientist trying to figure out crisis energy and help a garuda fly again. Honestly, I hate trying to describe plots without spoilers. I really want to say...read this book. Mieville doesn't bring us the usual dragons and griffins. He borrows from Egyptian mythology (khepri, the aforementioned scarab-head ladies) and Hindu (Garuda is Vishnu's mount), not relying on Western myths (I'm looking at you, Harry Potter!) like other books.
Grade: S Rank
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