Venus Preserved

Download or read book Venus Preserved written by Tanith Lee and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanith Lee concludes the compelling Secret Books of Venus quartet with a haunting and suspenseful tale set in her brilliantly re-imagined alternate Venice. Centuries into the future, the sunken city of Venus has been rebuilt beneath the sea, under a dome, where it is supported by a vast network of advanced computers that control everything from the diurnal cycle to virtual projections of authentic wildlife, regulating weather, noise, and the most precious undersea commodity of all -- air. It is here that a macabre experiment takes place: conducted by geneticists at the University, it consists of the resurrection of two lost souls, both murdered in their times -- Jula, a beautiful first-century gladiatrix, and Cloudio Del Nero, the 18th-century composer who met his fate in Lee's acclaimed Faces Under Water, the first volume of the Venus series.