{"product_id":"9781405032681-secondhand-veniss-underground","title":"Veniss Underground","description":"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.  'A magnificently phantasmagoric account of an epic journey of discovery. It is rare to find such intense visual imagery combined with such a fast-paced and far-reaching narrative, and the alloy is as hectically exciting as it is luminously brilliant' Brian Stableford  'A dark, phantasmagoric tale . that echoes Dante's Divine Comedy, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and the landscapes of Hieronymus Bosch'   Publishers Weekly","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48835600285915,"sku":"9781405032681-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3c964d72-067a-4d20-8a46-19a7b7a29286.jpg?v=1780446844","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781405032681-secondhand-veniss-underground","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}