{"product_id":"invisible-ecologies-book-rachel-armstrong-9781912950096","title":"Invisible Ecologies","description":"\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\u003eOrigamy 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\u003eOrigamy 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\u003ePerhaps 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\u003eA 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\u003eThe 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\u003eI'm still dumbfounded now. \u003cem\u003e- SFcrowsnest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49650139758865,"sku":"GOR011594010","price":2.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50401080770833,"sku":"CIN191295009XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50900014924049,"sku":"GOR014114689","price":2.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057304928529,"sku":"NIN9781912950096","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52655244509457,"sku":"NLS9781912950096","price":14.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/191295009X.jpg?v=1751452825","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/invisible-ecologies-book-rachel-armstrong-9781912950096","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}