Jeff VanderMeer
2) Borne
Author
Series
Borne novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"'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.' In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly, and broke free....
3) Annihilation
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The twelfth expedition arrives expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers. They discover a massive topographic anomaly and life-forms that surpass understanding. But it's the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown-navigating new terrain and new challenges-the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting. In Acceptance, the last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
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 a 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 Rodriguez (aka "Control")...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Security consultant "Jane Smith" receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control. Soon, Jane and her family are in danger,...
Author
Series
Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The first book in a two-volume fantasy about a teenaged boy who inherits his grandfather's mansion and discovers three strange doors, evidence his grandfather did not die of natural causes but spectacularly unnatural ones, and clues to the family's ties to an alternate Europe immersed in a war fought with strange tech and dark magic"--
Author
Series
Borne novels volume 2
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against a ruthless corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. Jeff...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Steampunk, the retro-futuristic cultural movement, has become a substantial genre in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. Part of its appeal is that steampunk is about doing it yourself. Desirina Boskovich and Jeff VanderMeer offer practical guidance into this realm, including sections on art, fashion, architecture, crafts, music, performance, and storytelling.
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory--she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape. But she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife...
13) The third bear
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A collection of Jeff VanderMeer's surreal and absurdist short fiction.
14) Finch
Author
Series
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic Finch. This third installment of the Ambergris Trilogy follows a besieged detective as he unravels a series of mysteries in the city of Ambergris"--
Author
Series
Ambergris trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and "eyewitness" reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose-and find-yourself again"--
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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 contemporary innovations....
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Return to the sumptuous, global feast of fantasy fiction with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's selection of modern masterpieces. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties--and beyond, into the twenty-first century--the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula...
20) Steampunk
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Features stories in which the Victorian era is reimagined to include Martian technology, steam-powered robots, airships, alchemy, and various anachronistic technologies.