Venus Preserved The Secret Books of Venus

by Lee, Tanith

• ISBN13: 9781585676538
• ISBN10: 1585676535
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-26
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Tanith Lee concludes the compelling Secret Books of Venus quartet with a haunting and suspenseful tale set in her brilliantly re-imagined alternate Venice. Centuries into the future, the sunken city of Venus has been rebuilt beneath the sea, under a dome, where it is supported by a vast network of advanced computers that control everything from the diurnal cycle to virtual projections of authentic wildlife, regulating 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 beautiful first-century gladiatrix, and Cloudio Del Nero, the 18th-century composer who met his fate in Lee's acclaimed Faces Under Water, the first volume of the Venus series.

Author Biography

Tanith Lee is one of the leading fantasy authors writing today. She has won the World Fantasy Award numerous times as well as the August Derleth Award

Table of Contents

Author's Note	9	(2)
Prologue: Death in Stagna Maris	11	(4)
Thin Air	15	(52)
Return from Sleep	67	(54)
Actors and Spirits	121	(134)
The Gorgeous Palaces	255	(60)
Glossary	315