Jeff VanderMeer, Author . Prime $15 (207p) ISBN 978-1-894815-64-2
HIn his masterful first novel, VanderMeer (City of Saints & Madmen) sets a dark, phantasmagoric tale in and beneath a decadent, far-future city where Living Artists craft monstrous works of biological art and genetically enhanced meerkats plot...
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Jeff VanderMeer, Author . Golden Gryphon $24.95 (295p) ISBN 978-1-930846-27-2
This collection of mostly older stories from the talented VanderMeer features a variety of tales that walk the border between literary surrealism and genre dark fantasy, many of them taking place in the author's two favorite locales, the haunted
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Jeff VanderMeer, Author . Tor $24.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1465-9
World Fantasy Award–winner VanderMeer makes a triumphant return to Ambergris, the fungus-shrouded metropolis he first chronicled in City of Saints and Madmen
(2001), in this masterful if difficult fantasy novel. Janice Shriek, a failed...
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Jeff VanderMeer, Author . Underland $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-9802260-1-0
VanderMeer's third book set in the fungus-laden city of Ambergris is an engrossing recasting of the hard-boiled detective novel. Traditional tropes—femmes fatales, double-crossing agents, underworld crime lords—mix seamlessly with a
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Jeff VanderMeer, Tachyon, $14.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-892391-98-8
VanderMeer's seventh collection (after Secret Lives) is a fine introduction to one of our very best contemporary practitioners of the fantastic. In the dark "The Third Bear," an isolated medieval town is beset by a monster that uses the bodies of...
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Jeff VanderMeer, Author Prime Books $21.95 (124p) ISBN 978-1-894815-93-2
Fans of World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer (City of Saints & Madmen) won't want to miss The Day Dali Died: Poetry and Flash Fiction, which for the most part exhibits a lighter side of his dark talent.
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Jeff VanderMeer, Author Prime Books $9.99 (124p) ISBN 978-1-894815-92-5
Fans of World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer (City of Saints & Madmen) won't want to miss The Day Dali Died: Poetry and Flash Fiction, which for the most part exhibits a lighter side of his dark talent.
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Jeff Vandermeer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $13 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-10409-2
The unnamed narrator of this brilliant first in a trilogy from fantasy author Vandermeer (City of Saints and Madmen) tells of her ever-more-terrifying, yet ever-more-transcendent experiences, as she, a biologist, and the three other members of her...
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Jeff VanderMeer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-10410-8
The second volume of VanderMeer’s trilogy (following Annihilation) continues to investigate the secrets of Area X, a mysterious zone somewhere in the United States, isolated from the rest of the world through (as-yet) inexplicable processes, and...
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Jeff VanderMeer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-10411-5
The concluding volume of VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy (after Annihilation and Authority) brings each of the series’s narrative threads together for an enigmatic but satisfying conclusion. In Annihilation, a single survivor from one of...
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Jeff VanderMeer. MCD, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-11524-1
VanderMeer, author of the acclaimed Southern Reach trilogy, has made a career out of eluding genre classifications, and with Borne he essentially invents a new one. In a future strewn with the cast-off experiments of an industrial laboratory known...
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Edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer. Tor, $39.99 (1152p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3360-5
Ambitious in the extreme, the Vandermeers’ latest genre-blurring endeavor (after Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded), which compiles 110 weird stories from the past century, is one of the most far-reaching and inclusive speculative anthologies to ever
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Jeff VanderMeer, Author, Matt Staggs, Contribution by, Nathan Ballingrud, Contribution by . Tachyon $14.95 (329p) ISBN 978-1-892391-90-2
Author and blogger VanderMeer (Finch
) outlines ways for writers to harness both the emerging power of the Internet and their own creativity in this informative guide. VanderMeer differentiates between a “Public Booklife” (marketing the...
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Jeff VanderMeer, Author, Michael Moorcock, Introduction by . Prime $40 (448p) ISBN 978-0-9668968-8-6
A master of postmodern game playing, VanderMeer (The Exchange) here gathers all the fiction published in his earlier trade paper collection (also titled, in a typically Borgesian maneuver, City of Saints and Madmen), plus an equal amount of new...
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Jeff VanderMeer. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-27680-5
VanderMeer returns to the hallucinatory world of Borne, where an all-powerful company has ravaged a metropolis known only as the City, in this lackluster novel. Into this unpredictable landscape come three astronauts, Chen, Moss, and Grayson,...
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Jeff VanderMeer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $19.99 (656p) ISBN 978-0-374-30886-5
Jonathan Lambshead plans to spend his summer inventorying the English countryside manor of his dead grandfather, Dr. Thackery “Thwack” Lambshead—a task the 16-year-old orphan must complete before inheriting Thwack’s estate. Assisting are classmate...
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Jeff VanderMeer. MCD, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-17354-8
Set in a world far along the path to ecological and political breakdown, this striking mix of thriller and biotech speculative fiction from VanderMeer (Dead Astronauts) charts a seemingly mad quest by its anonymous narrator, who suggests the reader...
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Jeff VanderMeer. MCD, $29 (528p) ISBN 978-0-374-61659-5
Nebula winner VanderMeer adds an eerie and evocative coda to his Southern Reach horror-fantasy trilogy with this prequel, set two decades prior and illuminating a fatal expedition into what would come to be known as Area X off the southeast coast of
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Theo Ellsworth and Jeff VanderMeer. Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-77046-403-2
With his meticulously drawn, uncanny comics, Ellsworth (The Understanding Monster) proves a fitting and unnerving match to mine this eerie, parable-like short story by VanderMeer (Hummingbird Salamander). The narrative is presented in brief segments,
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