{"product_id":"invisible-ecologies-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\u003e\"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.\" \u003cem\u003e- Warren Ellis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Origamy 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\u003e\"Perhaps 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\u003e\"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.\" \u003cem\u003e- Justina Robson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The 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\u003e\"I'm still dumbfounded now.\" \u003cem\u003e- SFcrowsnest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Armstrong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 191295009X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912950096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Newcon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.60d","brand":"Rachel Armstrong","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125556015359,"sku":"9781912950096","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d242a232-432b-4df8-b4f9-70d4172adc46.jpg?v=1687443290","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/invisible-ecologies-rachel-armstrong-9781912950096","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}