Venus Preserved The Secret Books of Venus

by Lee, Tanith

• ISBN13: 9781585674749
• ISBN10: 1585674745
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-10
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Tanith Lee concludes her compelling Secret Books of Venusquartet with a haunting and suspenseful tale set in her brilliantly reimagined alternate Venice. Centuries into the future, the sunken city of Venus has been salvaged from beneath the sea and rebuilt there under a dome, where it is supported by a vast network of computers that regulate weather, noise, and the most precious undersea commodity of all-air. It is here that a macabre experiment takes place. Conducted by geneticists at the university, it consists of the resurrection of two lost souls, both murdered in their times: Jula, a first-century gladiatrix, and Cloudio Del Nero, the eighteenth-century composer who met his fate in Lee's acclaimed first volume of the Venusseries. An unexplained catastrophe occurs, claiming several lives. Was it merely an accident, computer failure, or has the experiment unleashed an airborne virus? Or is there an even more sinister danger afoot, a force from beyond that threatens the survival of Venus itself? To answer these questions, a traveler from the surface is forced to confront mysteries in his own past that have remained buried, and to reveal the connection that ties him to the unavenged spirits wreaking havoc on the doomed city.

Author Biography

Tanith Lee has written more than fifty novels and short story collections, among them the best-selling Flat Earth series. She is the author of another Overlook fantasy series, The Secret Books of Paradys and most recently, Mortal Suns. She has won the World Fantasy Award numerous times as well as the August Derleth Award.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. 9
Prologue: Death in Stagna Maris	p. 11
Thin Air	p. 15
The Return from Sleep	p. 67
Actors and Spirits	p. 121
The Gorgeous Palaces	p. 255
Glossary	p. 315
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