num_pages: 240
description: On a far-future Earth, where vast deserts - ecological disaster areas - surround walled city-states slowly losing their grip on advanced technology, the mysterious Quin manipulates biological engineering to create sentient species as both toys and manual labour. When Nicholas, a failed holo artist, decides to visit Quin, he - along with his programmer sister Nicola and her former lover, Shadrach - will discover just how dangerous it is to know Quin -- in the place known as Veniss Underground.
language: English
title: Veniss Underground
titlecomplete: Veniss Underground
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Weird Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, New Weird
ratings_count: 3017
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Tor / Pan Macmillan