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Underneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races reside in perpetual anxiety about Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos have a vast mixture of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not to even Isaac, an excellent scientist with a penchant for Disaster Theory.Isaac has spent an eternity quietly undertaking his unique research. Nevertheless when a half-bird, half-human creature referred to as the Garuda involves him from afar, Isaac is confronted with challenges he's nothing you've seen prior fathomed.