The most prominent features of New Cruzbon that are handled in these books are the dystopian atmosphere, people who have a lot of things wrong with them, and a cruel economic hierarchy. We also see the setting in the short-story collection “Looking for Jake” but it is just one of the many different settings used throughout the book. Those China Miéville are in publication order: Perdido Street Station trilogy, The Scar, and Iron Council. There is no actual “New Cruzbon” series but there are multiple books taking place in this setting. It is a weird fantasy and steampunk hybrid populated with humans who are not very different from us. The name of the series comes from a city-state on the fictional planet of Bas-Lag. We are starting this article with the best China Miéville book series there is, New Cruzbon.
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