This experience, and the resulting trip back to the United States through Asia, Africa, and Europe, deeply influenced him. VanderMeer was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps. He has spoken at the Guggenheim, the Library of Congress, and the Arthur C. VanderMeer served as the 2016-2017 Trias Writer in Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Other titles include Wonderbook, the world’s first fully illustrated creative writing guide. He has coedited several iconic anthologies with his wife, the Hugo Award winning editor. His nonfiction has appeared in New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and the Washington Post. Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, has been translated into 35 languages, and was made into a film from Paramount Pictures directed by Alex Garland. His most recent novel, the national bestseller Borne, received wide-spread critical acclaim and his prior novels include the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance). NYT bestselling writer Jeff VanderMeer has been called “the weird Thoreau” by the New Yorker for his engagement with ecological issues. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth – all the Earths. Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways.

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. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation.

A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal.

A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.Ī messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Moss and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them.

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