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Description:
In Veniss, anything
is possible.
In Veniss Underground, nothing is impossible . . .
Jeff VanderMeer’s last book, City of Saints & Madmen, explored
the limits of literary fantasy, garnering raves from critics, including
a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Now, with Veniss Underground,
VanderMeer explores the limits of love, memory, and obsession in
a far future SF novel that combines the grotesque and the sublime
in a rousing adventure-mystery.
On a far future Earth where vast deserts--ecological disaster areas--surround
walled city-states slowly losing their grip on advanced technology,
the mysterious Quin manipulates biological engineering to create
sentient species as both toys and a growing source of manual labor.
When Nicholas, a failed holo artist, decides to visit Quin, he,
his programmer sister, Nicola, and her former lover, Shadrach, will
all discover what it really means to know Quin, in the place known
as Veniss Underground.
This special limited hardcover edition of Veniss Underground includes
a 5,000-word afterword, "Veniss Exposed--Precursors and Epiphanies,"
by the author that sheds new light on the milieu of Veniss Underground.
Combining fiction and nonfiction in the afterword, VanderMeer explores
the role of fragments, transformation, and imagination in the creation
of the novel. The insights into the world and characters described
in the novel will delight and fascinate readers, making this edition
doubly valuable.
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