{"product_id":"perdido-street-station-9780333781722","title":"Perdido Street Station","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead  ancient beast lies New Crobuzon  a squalid city where humans  Re-mades  and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy  and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers  artists  spies  junkies  and whores. In New Crobuzon  the unsavory deal is stranger to nonenot even to Isaac  a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory. Isaac 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 fathomed. Though the Garudas request is scientifically daunting  Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. While Isaacs experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession  one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows largerand more consumingby the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzonand not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . . A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor  magical intrigue  and wonderfully realized characters  told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson  Perdido Street Station offers an eerie  voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every readers imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652009287733,"sku":"ByrdShop_0333781724","price":214.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780333781722.jpg?v=1781848680","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/perdido-street-station-9780333781722","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}