Invisible Ecologies by Rachel Armstrong

Invisible Ecologies by Rachel Armstrong

Rachel Armstrong's follow-up to her critically aclaimed debut novel Origamy.

Set 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.

How the critics reacted to Origamy:

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. - Warren Ellis

Origamy crackles with a strange and brilliant energy, and folds the conventions of SF into beautiful new shapes. A rare and wonderful debut. - Adam Roberts

Perhaps the most astonishing and original piece of SF I've read in a long, long while. - Adrian Tchaikovsky

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. - Justina Robson

The concepts, images, and settings found in this novel could easily power a quartet of more traditionally-arranged works. - Tor.com

I'm still dumbfounded now. - SFcrowsnest

A whimsical, half-daft, drunken-prose-poem odyssey down alien byways. The closest thing to this book might be Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics. - Locus

Rachel Armstrong is a researcher developing novel sustainable technologies that harness some of the properties of life and has been developing a range of projects over the last 5 years that propose new approaches that are life-promoting rather than resource conserving. She has been developing prototypes and models for sustainable environmental technologies and collaborating with architectural practices and scientific research laboratories (University of Southampton, University of West England, University of Glasgow and the Southern University of Denmark). These prototypes have been recognized as having potential applications for industry and society, as noted in a Nature article.
Armstong's interest in space dates back to the 1990s. Armstrong is project leader for the Icarus Interstellar group, working on laying the groundwork for the construction of a starship in Earth's orbit within a hundred years and is Director of The Institute for Interstellar Studies for Sustainability and the Environment.
Throughout her career Armstrong has been recognized as a pioneer. The International Journal of Environmental Investing nominated her as among the most influential environmental academics in May 2014, and she was a coauthor on a paper published in 2013 for the International Journal of General Systems, awarded the distinction as best paper by Taylor & Francis. She has been named as one of the Wired 2013 Smart List, as one of the 2013 ICON 50 and one of the ten people in the UK that may shape the UK's economic recovery by Director Magazine in 2012. In the same year Armstrong was nominated as one of the most inspiring top nine women by Chick Chip magazine and as one of the BBC Focus Magazine's August 2011 edition's 'ideas that could change the world.' Her TED Talk Architecture that repairs itself was voted as #1 on Diane von Furstenberg's playlist and as #3 on Bjork's list of favorite talks, heard more than 750,000 times. She was recently appointed Professor of Experimental Architecture at the University of Newcastle.

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ISBN 13	9781912950096
ISBN 10	191295009X
Title	Invisible Ecologies
Author	Rachel Armstrong
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Newcon Press
Year published	2019-03-05
Number of pages	266
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.