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Monstrous Creatures: Coming in 2010. Jeff VanderMeer is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award as well as a past finalist for the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His books have made the best-of lists of Publishers Weekly, Publishers News, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Weekly, Locus, The SF Site, and many others. His short fiction has appeared in several year’s best anthologies. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife Ann Vandermeer, fiction editor of Weird Tales. Praise for Shriek: An Afterword: "Here is a desert island book, a tale you can lose yourself in for days, a novel of character in which the setting—the magnificently gritty city-state named Ambergris—proves as the light fails to be the finest character of all." Gene Wolfe, author of The Claw of the Conciliator and Soldier of Sidon "There's a madness in Jeff VanderMeer's literary eye, and I would be a liar if I didn't admit it seems intimately familiar. VanderMeer envisions an outlaw literature of shrieks and shouts and a screaming across the sky, worth a thousand polite and respectable mutterings. I, for one, am listening." Steven Erickson, author of The Malazan Book of the Fallen Praise for City of Saints and Madmen: “Somewhere at the intersection of pulp and Surrealism, drawing on the very best of both traditions, is Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris. Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humour, the stories engross and challenge endlessly. Ambergris is one of my favourite haunts in fiction.” China Miéville, award-winning author of Perdido Street Station and King Rat “A rare treasure, to be tasted with both relish and respect. It is the work of an original. It’s what you’ve been looking for.” Michael Moorcock, author of Behold the Man and Gloriana "Beautifully written, virtually hallucinatory work ... connoisseurs of the finest in postmodern fantasy will find it enormously rewarding.” Publisher’s Weekly Praise for Jeff VanderMeer: “In the hands of a brilliant writer like Jeff VanderMeer, writing fantasy can be a means of serious artistic expression. In VanderMeer's hands, it is also playful, poignant, and utterly, wildly, imaginative.” Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story and Mr. X “VanderMeer is a novelist to be reckoned with.” San Francisco Chronicle |
