{"title":"Monte Schulz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonte Schulz\u003c\/strong\u003e invites readers into rich, imaginative worlds where the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur. With titles like \u003cem\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUndercity\u003c\/em\u003e, his work explores complex societies, often highlighting the surreal and speculative aspects of urban life. Fans of thought-provoking science fiction and fantasy will find his storytelling both immersive and original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from the realms of \u003cem\u003eSci-Fi \u0026amp; Fantasy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGeneral Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, Schulz's narratives delve deeply into human experience through extraordinary settings. His writing balances inventive world-building with keen insights into character and society, making his books compelling for readers seeking more than just escapism.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"metropolis-by-monte-schulz-9781683965794","title":"Metropolis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegency College senior Julian Brehm's uneventful student life is derailed when he falls for Nina Rinaldi, a beautiful young revolutionary engaged in political activism against the authoritarian regime that rules the country and wages a deceitful, distracting war. Julian's love for – and moral alliance to – Nina eventually leads him into a vast undercity beneath the metropolis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen, east by train and into the war zone itself, where mortal danger in that expanding cemetery of millions threatens Julian's life; what he witnesses will alter how he perceives the Republic and ultimately his fate within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJulian's adventure can be seen as our own, a world of vacillating morality and unceasing violence. Apathy and passion. Fear and courage of purpose. Julian's is a hero's journey into the dark unknown. A love story, which extends in many directions. A war novel of incredible scope and horror. A suspenseful mystery novel with a moral puzzle at its core. And a coming-of-age tale of a young man seeing the world he was born into, more dangerous and more beautiful than he could have ever imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on the meaning of virtue and goodness in the face of the most monstrous crimes. It could just as easily be the story of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853274435820,"sku":"9781683965794","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15361213482787.jpg?v=1759194498"},{"product_id":"undercity-by-monte-schulz-9798875001802","title":"Undercity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce there was a republic of boundless wonder and achievement whose bright horizon had gone dark, soiled by a populace it imagined as undisciplined, unhealthy, feebleminded, and whose very existence stained and subverted a great society. A solution appeared in the furious logic of Biological Dominion that named the ineffectual and weak, the criminally deformed and unwell, as the root cause of this decline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow, imagine laws conceived in the high halls of government to rid this society of millions deemed infected by a curious disease supposedly responsible for that poverty of health and morality. Next, imagine those millions considered to be unfit and unworthy for daily life loaded onto freight trains and ushered away to perish in distant woods and fields. Imagine more thousands chased into the vast underground of labyrinthine caves and dark catacombs beneath vibrant city streets and lovely city parks to wither away and die.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUndercity\u003c\/em\u003e collects the voices of brave survivors, of those who've refused to submit to the indignities of eugenical persecution, the horror of gas chambers, and relentless warfare in rural provinces. Some of these stories demonstrate the moral disaster of eugenics, while others tell of courage and love and that indomitable magic of the human spirit that refuses to be silenced in the face of unspeakable crimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps \u003cem\u003eUndercity\u003c\/em\u003e is a warning to us, as well, that what we might think is unimaginable needs only apathy and inattention to arise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562877501676,"sku":"9798875001802","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9798875001802-undercity.jpg?v=1776989550"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/monte-schulz.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}