Strange things are happening in New Crobuzon - a giant metropolis, where a variety of races and exotic animals coexist. There are also bizarre creatures that threaten everyone else - swallow-nettles. They break into the dreams and consciousness of the townspeople, hunting for them and drinking their memory to the core. These flying monsters are surrounded by events that turn into a bloody drama with many actors. here and representatives of the corrupt government, here and air hunters garuda (half-humans-half-birds), here and constructs (something like biorobots), here and Enslaved - organisms, surgically glued from different species of living creatures. There are also water, cocktails, beliefs ... And between them all, in different dimensions, travels the monstrous spider Weaver - the personification of extraterrestrial power and thinking.
even causes tears ...
Review of the book: Tea Meville "Station on the Street of Despair" (author Oksana Pelyushenko)