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Beneath the World, a Sea
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Corvus
- Publish Date: Jun 1st, 2020
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.00in - 1.00in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9781786491572
- Categories: • Science Fiction - Action & Adventure• Literary
About the Author
Chris Beckett is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award, 2009, for "The Turing Test," the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2013, for Dark Eden and was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award for Mother of Eden in 2015 and for Daughter of Eden in 2016.
Praise for this book
"A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand." --Adrian Tchaikovsky, author, Children of Time
"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
"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