Jeff VanderMeer

Biography

NYT bestselling writer Jeff VanderMeer has been called “the weird Thoreau” by the New Yorker for his engagement with ecological issues.

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).

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 nonfiction has appeared in New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and the Washington Post.

He has coedited several iconic anthologies with his wife, the Hugo Award winning editor.

Other titles include Wonderbook, the world’s first fully illustrated creative writing guide.

VanderMeer served as the 2016-2017 Trias Writer in Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

He has spoken at the Guggenheim, the Library of Congress, and the Arthur C.

Clarke Center for the Human Imagination.

VanderMeer was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps.

This experience, and the resulting trip back to the United States through Asia, Africa, and Europe, deeply influenced him.

Jeff is married to Ann VanderMeer, who is currently an acquiring editor at Tor.

com and has won the Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award for her editing of magazines and anthologies.

They live in Tallahassee, Florida, with two cats and thousands of books.

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Country: United States
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Bellefonte· Pennsylvania
Birth date: 07 July 1968
Nationality: American

Shirley Jackson Award for Novel
World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction
Tähtifantasia Award

I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all of this speculation is incomplete, inexact, inaccurate, useless.
My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off of balconies. In one particularly vivid moment, I stood on a ledge as the jaws closed in, heat-swept, and tinged with the smell of rotting flesh.
Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.
The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn’t care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.
It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear.
Early on, I had thought Wick was reaching for a body across the bed. But, for a long time, he had been reaching for me--for the person called Rachel, who did indeed, in the end, love back the person name Wick.
They’d never really been my friends; I didn’t cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.
I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence.
We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.
Never do something for just one reason.

Books

Veniss Underground
Jeff VanderMeer
Veniss Underground
Jeff VanderMeer
Finch
Jeff VanderMeer
Shriek : an Afterword
Jeff VanderMeer
Finch
Jeff VanderMeer
Acceptance
Jeff VanderMeer
It is winter in area x.
City of Saints and Madmen
Jeff VanderMeer
In city of saints and madmen, jeff vandermeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic.
Shriek : An Afterword
Jeff VanderMeer
Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer
Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer
Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer
From the author of annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things.
Ölü Astronotlar
Jeff Vandermeer
Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer
From the author of annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things.
Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer
From the author of annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things.
Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer
'frankly superb.
Dead Astronauts
Jeff VanderMeer
Under the watchful eye of the company, three characters - grayson, morse and chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them.
Ambergris : City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek
Jeff VanderMeer
From the author of borne and annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic ambergris trilogy.
Dead Astronauts
Jeff VanderMeer
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 Peculiar Peril
Jeff VanderMeer
The first book in a new ya fantasy duology from a bestselling genre-expanding master, about a teenager who embarks on a quest to protect the world from an alternate universe where magic abounds and history has been rewritten.
Peculiar Peril
Jeff VanderMeer
A Peculiar Peril
Jeff VanderMeer
The first book in a new ya fantasy duology from a bestselling genre-expanding master, about a teenager who embarks on a quest to protect the world from an alternate universe where magic abounds and history has been rewritten.
Ambergris : City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek
Jeff VanderMeer
From the author of borne and annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic ambergris trilogy.
Dead Astronauts
Jeff VanderMeer
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission.
AMBERGRIS : CITY OF SAINTS AND MADMEN; SHRIEK
Jeff VanderMeer
From new york times bestselling author jeff vandermeer comes the one-volume reissue of his cult classic ambergris trilogy: city of saints and madmen, finch, and shriek: an afterword.
Peculiar Peril Sneak Peek
Jeff VanderMeer
Download a free sneak peek of a peculiar peril by jeff vandermeer.
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
The Strange Bird
Jeff VanderMeer
the strange bird—from new york times bestselling novelist jeff vandermeer—is a digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, borne.
Dead Astronauts
Jeff VanderMeer
A mind-bending take on the post-apocalyptic, three dead astronauts expands the world of nebula awardwinning author jeff vandermeers critically acclaimed novel borne..
Dead Astronauts
Jeff VanderMeer
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission.
BORNE PB
Jeff VanderMeer
A financial times book of the year the dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by alex garland.
Veniss Underground
Jeff VanderMeer
From the author of annihilation, now a major motion picture on netflix dreams and nightmares entwine as three fellow travellers strive to achieve their deepest desires.
Borne: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer
Borne : paperback : mcd : 9780374537654 : 0374537658 : 27 feb 2018 : "a young woman named rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict.
Wonderbook
Jeff VanderMeer
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
Jeff VanderMeer
Annihilation is the first volume in jeff vandermeer’s southern reach trilogy, authority is the second, and acceptance is the third.
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Area x has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades.
The Time Traveller's Almanac: The Ultimate Treasury of Time Travel Fiction - Brought to You from the Future
Jeff VanderMeer
The time traveller's almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled.
Shriek
Jeff VanderMeer
From the author of annihilation, now a major motion picture on netflix.
City of Saints and Madmen
Jeff VanderMeer
From the author of annihilation, now a major motion picture on netflix.
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
In de ruïnes van een stad, verwoest door droogte en oorlog, probeert een jonge vrouw te overleven.
Borne; Yok Olus, Yetki Ve Kabullenisin Yazari
Jeff Vandermeer
Jeff vandermeer ödüllü bir yazar ve editördür.
The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
Jeff VanderMeer
The strange bird—from new york times bestselling novelist jeff vandermeer—is a novella-length digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, borne.
Kabullenis
Jeff Vandermeer
New york times’ın çok satanlar listesine giren southern reach Üçlemesi’nin son kitabında sorular yanıt bulacak, doğa gerçek yüzünü gösterecek, dehşet artacak.
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names “borne” entangled in the fur of mord, a gigantic, despotic bear.
Yetki
Jeff Vandermeer
Otuz yılın ardından, insanlığın x bölgesiyle kurduğu tek bağlantı, hükümetin gizlene gizlene artık kaybolmaya yüz tutmuş southern reach isimli teşkilatı tarafından sağlanmıştı.
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names “borne” entangled in the fur of mord, a gigantic, despotic bear.
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names “borne” entangled in the fur of mord, a gigantic, despotic bear.
Akzeptanz #3 Southern-Reach-Trilogie
Jeff VanderMeer
The Strange Bird
Jeff VanderMeer
The strange bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory--she is part bird, part human, part many other things.
This World Is Full of Monsters
Jeff VanderMeer
An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death and rebirth in a transformed earth.
Borne: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer
Auslöschung #1 Southern-Reach-Trilogie
Jeff VanderMeer
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names “borne” entangled in the fur of mord, a gigantic, despotic bear.
Harikalar Kitabi
Jeff Vandermeer
Hikayeniz fantastik bir dünyada, uzak bir gelecekte ya da uzak bir galakside ya da eve çok yakın bir yerde geçse de bu yaratıcı ve karşı konulamaz rehber sizin gibi yazarlar için tasarlandı.
Aceitacao - Vol.3 - Trilogia Comando Sul
Jeff Vandermeer
É inverno na Área x, a misteriosa região selvagem que há trinta anos desafia explicações e repele pesquisadores de expedição após expedição, recusando-se a revelar seus segredos.
Shriek
Jeff VanderMeer
An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of ambergris--previously chronicled in jeff vandermeer's acclaimed city of saints & madmen--shriek: an afterword relates the scandalous, heartbre.
The Big Book of Science Fiction
Jeff VanderMeer
Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time - past, present and future.
Acceptare
Jeff Vandermeer
Divizia sudică, agenţia însărcinată cu investigarea şi monitorizarea zonei x, s-a prăbuşit pentru că de treizeci de ani locul acela sfidează orice explicaţii şi respinge toate expediţiile.
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
'a contemporary masterpiece' guardian the first volume of the extraordinary southern reach trilogy - now a major motion picture written and directed by alex garland (ex machina) and starring natalie portman and oscar isaac for thirty years, area x has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border - an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness.

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