Beneath the World, a Sea [Paperback]

South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures with long limbs and black button eyes have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results.Beneath the World, A Seais a tour de force of modern fiction—a deeply searching and unsettling novel about the human subconscious, and all that lies beneath. 

"A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand." —Adrian Tchaikovsky, author,Children of Time

"Beckett is superb at undercutting reader assumptions with a casual line of dialogue or acute psychological observation: the book reads like Conrad'sHeart of Darknessreimagined by JG Ballard." —Guardian

"An indefinable, mesmerising book that explores the unique world of the Submundo Delta and forces us to accept that not everything has an explanation and that the modern world cannot provide the solution to all problems. . . . Beckett has produced something that defies convention and leaves you with a dream-like satisfaction." —SF Crows Nest

Chris Beckett is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award, 2009, for "The Turing Test," the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2013, forDark Edenand was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award forMother of Edenin 2015 and forDaughter of Edenin 2016.