Wonderbook(Updated) (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by JeffVandermeer, Jeremy Zerfoss Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2018 by Harry N. Abrams Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-4197-2966-9, ISBN: 1-4197-2966-7
"Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also exploits the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, the book features sidebars and essays from some of the bigge ..."
Annihilation(1st Edition) A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy) by JeffVandermeer Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Fsg Originals ISBN-13: 978-0-374-10409-2, ISBN: 0-374-10409-3
"Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine Edenic landscape the second expedition ended in mass suicide the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves and within weeks all had died of ..."
Acceptance(1st Edition) A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy) by JeffVandermeer Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2014 by Fsg Originals ISBN-13: 978-0-374-10411-5, ISBN: 0-374-10411-5
"It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they ..."
Authority(1st Edition) A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy) by JeffVandermeer Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2014 by Fsg Originals ISBN-13: 978-0-374-10410-8, ISBN: 0-374-10410-7
"After thirty years the only human engagement with Area X a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization has been as series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten the Southern Reach Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation the agency is in complete disarray John Rodrigues aka Control i ..."
Wonderbook(1st Edition) The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by JeffVandermeer, Jeremy Zerfoss, John Coulthart Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Harry N. Abrams ISBN-13: 978-1-4197-0442-0, ISBN: 1-4197-0442-7
"This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, "Wonderbook" energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. Aimed ..."
"* Introducing stories of circuses traditional and bizarre, futuristic and steeped in tradition, joyful and heart-breaking! And among the actors you will find old friends, be they sad clowns or free-spirited gymnasts, as well as new ones - mammoths, mechanical piano men, and things best not described at all. Come in, come all, and enjoy the literary show unfolding!"
Dead Astronauts (Paperback) by Jeff. Vandermeer Paperback, Published 2020 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-75821-7, ISBN: 1-250-75821-1
The Third Bear(1st Edition) by JeffVandermeer Paperback, 273 Pages, Published 2010 by Tachyon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-892391-98-8, ISBN: 1-892391-98-8
"“Cunningly crafted stories full of wonder and intelligence. VanderMeer proves again why he is so essential and why everybody should be reading him.”―Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoFeaturing “The Situation,” a story set in the universe of VanderMeer’s bestseller, Borne.Compared by critics to Borges, Nabokov, and Kafka, contemporary fantasist Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy) co ..."
Finch(1st Edition) by JeffVandermeer Paperback, 339 Pages, Published 2009 by Underland Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9802260-1-0, ISBN: 0-9802260-1-5
"In Finch, mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fantasy state Ambergris and put it under martial law. They have disbanded House Hoegbotton and are controlling the human inhabitants with strange addictive drugs, internment in camps, and random acts of terror. The rebel resistance is scattered, and the gray caps are using human labor to build two strange towers. Against this backdrop, John ..."
""The Time Traveler's Almanac" is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contem ..."
"Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid you re afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn! Book Sense You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembled each disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and ..."
A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead) by JeffVandermeer Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 2020 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux (Byr) ISBN-13: 978-0-374-30886-5, ISBN: 0-374-30886-1
"A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion―a veritable cabinet of curiosities―once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover ..."
"From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy. Before Area X, there was Ambergris."
Borne (Hardback) by JeffVandermeer Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2017 by Fourth Estate ISBN-13: 978-0-00-815917-7, ISBN: 0-00-815917-3
"The dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Alex Garland.“Am I a person?” Borne asks Rachel, in extremis.“Yes, you are a person,” Rachel tells him. “But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.”A ruined city of the future lives in fear of a despotic, gigantic flying bear, driven mad by the tortures inflicted on him by the Company, a mysterio ..."
Annihilation(Tie-In Edition) (The Southern Reach Trilogy) by JeffVandermeer Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2012 by Harper Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-00-813910-0, ISBN: 0-00-813910-5
"The first volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy. 'Creepy and fascinating' Stephen King. Welcome to Area X. An Edenic wilderness, an environmental disaster zone, a mystery for thirty years. For thirty years, Area X, monitored by the secret agency known as the Southern Reach, has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border- an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. Eleve ..."
Monstrous Creatures Explorations of Fantasy Through Essays, Articles and Reviews by JeffVandermeer Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2011 by Guide Dog Books ISBN-13: 978-1-935738-03-9, ISBN: 1-935738-03-8
"An entertaining, eclectic chronicle of modern fantastical fiction, Monstrous Creatures delivers incisive commentary, reviews, and essays pertaining to permutations of the monstrous, whether it's other people's monsters, personal monsters, or monstrous thoughts. A two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, Jeff VanderMeer is one of speculative fiction's foremost voices. For the past 20 years, he has not only written weird literary ficti ..."
" Steampunk—a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture—is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells through its most recent expression in movies such as Sherlock Holmes. Its adherents celebrate the inventor a ..."
"A perfect gift book, this sumptuously illustrated and whimsically bite-sized bestiary is the definitive—in fact, only—guide to the kosherness (kashrut) of imaginary animals. It is an undomesticated romp from A to Z, including E.T., hobbits, Mongolian Death Worms, and the elusive chupacabra. This fantastical journey embarks upon a hilariously contentious debate between the alter-ego of acclaimed fantasist Jeff VanderMeer (a.k.a. Evil Mon ..."
"The world has changed, and with it the craft of writing. In addition to the difficulties of putting pen to paper, authors must now contend with a slew of new media. This has forever altered the relationship between writers and their readers, their publishers, and their work. In an era when authors are expected to do more and more to promote their own work, Booklife steers readers through the bewildering options: -What should authors ..."
"In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited–an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous ori ..."