Award-winning author C.S.E. Cooney indulges in high-class, dizzying fantasy In Desdemona and the Deep, the spoiled girl of a rich mining family must get the tithe of guys her father promised to the globe below. On the surface, her world is usually rife with commercial pollution that ruins the health of poor factory workers while the idle wealthy indulge themselves in unheard-of extravagance. Here are goblins, inexplicable kingdoms, and a completely different hierarchy.