{"product_id":"invisible-ecologies-paperback","title":"Invisible Ecologies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Armstrong\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Armstrong's follow-up to her critically aclaimed debut novel \u003cem\u003eOrigamy. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a near-future Venice, Invisible Ecologies tells the story of Po, an ambiguously gendered boy who shares an intimate connection with a nascent sentience emerging within the Po delta: the bioregion upon which the city of Venice is founded. The pair share a series of extraordinary adventures and, as Po starts school, stumble upon the Mayor's drastic plans to modernise the city and reshape the future of the lagoon and its people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow the critics reacted to Origamy: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Origamy is a magnificent, glittering explosion of a book: a meditation on creation, the poetry of science and the insane beauty of everything. You're going to need this.\" \u003cem\u003e- Warren Ellis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Origamy crackles with a strange and brilliant energy, and folds the conventions of SF into beautiful new shapes. A rare and wonderful debut.\" \u003cem\u003e- Adam Roberts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Perhaps the most astonishing and original piece of SF I've read in a long, long while.\" \u003cem\u003e- Adrian Tchaikovsky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A visionary masterpiece. Science Fiction, Fantasy, science and poetry combine to create a lyric on life and death that spans the whole of creation. Delightful and mind-expanding. If you miss it you have missed one of the finest examples of literary art.\" \u003cem\u003e- Justina Robson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The concepts, images, and settings found in this novel could easily power a quartet of more traditionally-arranged works...\" \u003cem\u003e- Tor.com\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'm still dumbfounded now.\" \u003cem\u003e- SFcrowsnest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A whimsical, half-daft, drunken-prose-poem odyssey down alien byways. The closest thing to this book might be Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics.\" \u003cem\u003e - Locus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 266\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42742125133887,"sku":"9781912950096","price":29.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ce7ab8c883dcf2903a486161d3d8de0a.webp?v=1765162802","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/invisible-ecologies-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}