Series
New Crobuzon
China Miéville · 3 novels · 1 short story · 2000–2005
The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist. Perdido Street Station follows a renegade scientist and his lover after an experiment unleashes something monstrous on the city, while The Scar and Iron Council return to the same setting with different casts and only loose continuity between books.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
New Crobuzon at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s4
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:weird fictionclass conflictsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Jackdarkest
- The Scarbrightest · most intense
- Perdido Street Stationcalmest