Invisible Ecologies

<p>Rachel Armstrong's follow-up to her critically aclaimed debut novel <em>Origamy. </em></p><p>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.</p><p>How the critics reacted to Origamy:</p><p>"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." <em>– Warren Ellis</em></p><p>“Origamy crackles with a strange and brilliant energy and folds the conventions of SF into beautiful new shapes.  A rare and wonderful debut.” <em>– Adam Roberts</em></p><p>“Perhaps the most astonishing and original piece of SF I’ve read in a long long while.” <em>– Adrian Tchaikovsky</em></p><p>“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.” <em>– Justina Robson</em></p><p>"The concepts images and settings found in this novel could easily power a quartet of more traditionally-arranged works..." <em>– Tor.com</em></p><p>"I’m still dumbfounded now." <em>– SFcrowsnest</em></p><p>"A whimsical half-daft drunken-prose-poem odyssey down alien byways. The closest thing to this book might be Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics." <em> – Locus</em></p>