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PublisherAtlantic Books, The Limited

ISBN-101786491575

ISBN-139781786491572

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038482238

Product Key Features

Book TitleBeneath the World, a Sea

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Literary

Publication Year2020

GenreFiction

AuthorChris Beckett

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

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Reviews"An indefinable, mesmerising book that explores the unique world of the Submundo Delta and forces us to accept that not everything has an explanation and that the modern world cannot provide the solution to all problems. . . . Beckett has produced something that defies convention and leaves you with a dream-like satisfaction." -- SF Crows Nest, "Readers looking for a new and hauntingly realistic dystopia will find plenty to enjoy, question, and ponder." -- Publishers Weekly, "Readers looking for a new and hauntingly realistic dystopia will find plenty to enjoy, question, and ponder." -- Publishers Weekly on America City, "Beckett is superb at undercutting reader assumptions with a casual line of dialogue or acute psychological observation: the book reads like Conrad's Heart of Darkness reimagined by JG Ballard." -- Guardian, "Whilst America City could be called a climate-change novel, it is much more than that. The droughts, storms, and floods provide the context in which questions about identity, crafting story, creating and manipulating political events and policy, and exploring tensions in friendships and relationships, occur. It is an intelligent and compelling novel which through well-plotted story--and complex, believable, and interesting characters--explores one possible scenario, and in the process introduces its various and rather more universal themes. . . . America City bears comparison with another, recent, brilliant novel focused on climate change in twenty-second-century America: New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. . . . Both are expertly written in their different approaches." -- Strange Horizons, "A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand." --Adrian Tchaikovsky, author, Children of Time

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823.92

SynopsisA hugely ambitious, genre-defying novel about humanity and the secrets of the unconscious mind, by an Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner. 'A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand.' - Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016 South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results... Beneath the World, A Sea is a tour de force of modern fiction - a deeply searching and unsettling novel about the human subconscious, and all that lies beneath. 'Beckett is superb at undercutting reader assumptions with a casual line of dialogue or acute psychological observation: the book reads like Conrad's Heart of Darkness reimagined by JG Ballard.' - Guardian, South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures with long limbs and black button eyes have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results. Beneath the World, A Sea is a tour de force of modern fiction--a deeply searching and unsettling novel about the human subconscious, and all that lies beneath., A hugely ambitious, genre-defying novel about humanity and the secrets of the unconscious mind, by an Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner.