Perdido Street Station

By: China Miéville

beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of new crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one--not even to isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. but when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the garuda comes to him from afar, isaac is faced with challenges he has never before...