Jeremy’s Reviews > Perdido Street Station > Status Update

Isaac's experiments with flying things are wonderfully written.

Mieville's already demonstrated the immense fecundity of his imagination at this point, but the detailed description of the process involved in the making of khepri art is a tour de force. Mr Motley is an intriguing but threateningly remote character; Lin, on the other hand, labours physically (and intimately) to reproduce him. It's extraordinary stuff.