Veniss Underground | Jeff VanderMeer
- 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 manual labour. When Nicholas, a failed holo artist, decides to visit Quin, he along with his programmer sister Nicola and her former lover, Shadrach will discover just how dangerous it is to know Quin in the place known as Veniss Underground. 'Visionary episodes come thicker and faster, and at times the author only barely controls his own invention ...The denouement is as powerful as any I have read' "Michael Moorcock", "Guardian". 'An outstanding first novel brimming with startling ideas' "Scotsman". 'A dark, phantasmagoric tale that echoes Dante's Divine Comedy, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and the landscapes of Hieronymus Bosch' "Publishers Weekly"






