Venus Preserved

Tanith Lee. Overlook Press, $25.95 (316pp) ISBN 978-1-58567-474-9

World Fantasy Award winner Tanith Lee brings her series about an alternative Venice, which began with Faces Under Water (1998), to a resounding close with Venus Preserved: The Secret Books of Venus: Book IV. A mysterious virus or worse threatens the survival of the now domed, underwater city of Venus.

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