Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment

• published by MiroLand / Guernica Editions (2017)
• paperback and ebook
• Italian translation by  Stefano Paparozzi and Obsydian – traduzioni e servizi editoriali as Sognando Venera (Watson edizioni 2019)
• French-language translation by Pascal Raud forthcoming from Alire
• Spanish translation by Aurora Carrillo as Venera: Sueños Mediterráneos forthcoming from Dokusou Ediciones (2021)
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Somewhere in the Mediterranean lies the mysterious archipelago of Venera, a city-state drenched in erotic romanticism, fuelled by atavistic ritual, and suffused with surreal adventure and intrigue. Outside forces repeatedly attempt to steal its most closely guarded treasure: the secret of the sacred spice vermilion, and its power to alter consciousness and perhaps even reality. Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment chronicles the city-state’s mythic history through antiquity, Roman times, the Renaissance, the Victorian era, the twentieth century, the present, and the far future.

contents

overture: Bedtime Stories

part 1 ~ Strange Romances

• The City of Unrequited Dreams
• Xandra’s Brine
• At the World Tree Hotel
• The Venera Fantasy Convention

interlude: Vermilion Dreams: The Complete Works of Bram Jameson

part 2 ~ Adventures in Times Past

• The Hecate Centuria
• The Secret Dragon of Imperial Power
• Agents of the Vermilion Eye
• The Surrealist Lanterns

interlude: The Phantasmagorical Odysseys of Scheherazade

part 3 ~ The Secret Histories of Magus Amore

• The Subterranean Odyssey of Magus Amore
• Adventures in Crypto-alchemy: The Golden Cryptograph
• The Thirteenth Goddess
• Vermilion Wine