Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer
Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer
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Veniss Underground

Author: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrator: Scott Brick, Ron Butler, Emily Woo Zeller, Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/11/2023

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, Veniss Underground, takes readers on a journey to a labyrinthine city of tunnels, and the dangers lurking behind each turn.Set in the mysterious and magical city of Veniss, a surreal metropolis that sits over an underground labyrinth of tunnels and mines. In this tale, epic and mythological in scope, VanderMeer takes the reader below the surface of the earth to the dark and decadent future. It’s a world where Living Artists craft works out of biological material, and humans are either tossed out or recycled into something wholly unrecognizable.Told from three distinct viewpoints―Nicholas, a not-quite-talented-enough Artist; his twin sister, Nicola; and Nicola’s former lover, Shadrach―Veniss Underground follows these characters as they embark on a journey to hell and back, replete with the blend of horrors (biological, environmental, and ethical) that also animate VanderMeer’s subsequent blockbuster novels. Veniss Underground explores the limits of love, memory, and obsession in a landscape that defies the boundaries of imagination. This reissue includes a new introduction by the National Book Award–winning author Charles Yu and more new material from Jeff VanderMeer.

About Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple anthologies. His recent books have made the year’s best books lists of Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Amazon.com.

About Scott Brick

Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.

About Ron Butler

Ron Butler is a Los Angeles–based actor, Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator, and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits. Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP. He works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.

About Emily Woo Zeller

Emily Woo Zeller is an Audie and Earphones Award–winning narrator, voice-over artist, actor, dancer, and choreographer. AudioFile magazine named her one of the Best Voices of 2013. Her voice-over career includes work in animated film and television in Southeast Asia.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on May 25, 2024

Check out our interview with Jeff VanderMeer at Grimdark Magazine. My complete review of Veniss Underground is published at Grimdark Magazine. Jeff VanderMeer’s first published novel, Veniss Underground, returns to print in a new twentieth anniversary edition, which also features five short stories an......more

Goodreads review by Ian on March 22, 2015

Plane of Existence This futuristic, metaphysical tale reminded me a lot of Angela Carter's novels. It's told in three sections, each of which offers a different, but cumulative, perspective. Together, they work like a multi-faceted jewel. The first is narrated by holographic artist Nicholas in the firs......more

Goodreads review by Althea on November 04, 2014

Vandermeer has published many more short stories than novels, and his preference for the short format shows – Veniss is a very short novel (in my edition bundled with an unrelated (?) ‘novella’ (I’d still call it a short story) to fill out the book. Its length is my biggest complaint with the work.......more

Goodreads review by Kate Victoria on May 14, 2023

I’m honestly not sure what to think of this book. The reader has to go in with an open mind, a VERY open mind, as with many of the author’s other publications. I’ve read VanderMeer’s work before and felt the same way. Some parts I could understand, and others were beyond my grasp. This is a fluid boo......more

Goodreads review by Patrick.G.P on October 23, 2018

Jeff Vandermeer’s first novel takes us to the city of Veniss, a sprawling dystopian metropolis, where strange creatures, created from biological and mechanical parts roam the city. In the background looms a mysterious character named Quin, who seems responsible for all the strange automatons and cre......more

Quotes

“[A] short, rich view of a warped world.” The Guardian (London)

“In a world of upheaval—political, social, natural—Jeff VanderMeer makes destabilizing work for an unstable world. He is unafraid of monstrous complexity, because with it comes true possibility and even wonder.” Literary Hub

“VanderMeer’s first novel…set a template for much speculative strangeness to come…For all the grotesque, uncanny strangeness that VanderMeer conjures up, he doesn’t lose sight of the love story at its center…His audacity here is appealing.” Kirkus Reviews

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