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more about #jeffvandermeer Allen_Richards: A solid half of my Lansdale collection is from Subterranian. While I absolutely HATE, HATE, HATE the cover art on pretty much every one, it's nice to ... more » craigdbpatton: Ramsey Campbell is "underrated"...? By who? He's won tons of awards, is considered a living legend by the horror and fantasy community, and is "Brit... more » Bootknife-Jackson: must buy shatner book! more » redspidey: Shatner. Shatner? Shatner! on SUNDAY! SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!!! I hope that's not meant to be him on the cover. The face looks really off. more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Also Threat Quality Press. We have published ONE WHOLE BOOK! more » crashedpc - Haifisch: Eraserhead gets an automatic win because of the Shatner Quake. Dear sweet jeebus. more » Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: I would call this a post that starts with a image that makes you wanna run away. But the hashtag was to long. more » Valerie 'Foxy' E.: Also, one of the best bands out there right now did the soundtrack: [murderbydeath.bandcamp.com] #jeffvandermeer more » rek: Sounds like ribopunk to me. [en.wikipedia.org] #jeffvandermeer more » hellbly: Should I read Shriek first? #jeffvandermeer more » doubledeckard: Interdimensional, Extraterrestrial Biosteam Noir - a pack of archetypes thick enough to choke a mule. Sounds damned intriguing. #jeffvandermeer more » Nyarlahotep: "Ambergris. Noun. A grease-like product of the sperm whale's digestive tract that is used as a base in the finest perfumes. This has been Roseanne, yo... more » Starwatcher: Right up my alley. Gawd, I love that cover too. #jeffvandermeer more » Anekanta - Go Play!: I was very close to picking up The City of Saints and Madmen last week. Maybe I should have. more » GuinevereLagman: just a comment from an urbanist: there's a difference between built environment and the society that inhibits it (although you can see it as combine f... more » Lightice: Well, Jeff VanderMeer knows what he's talking about. His Ambergris, the City of Saints and Madmen is one of the most fascinating cities I've seen in s... more » Ruthless, If you let me: I think that there is a lack of historical buildings in future city-scapes. So many old buildings gain that vaunted "historical" status that they can ... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: I think it's important to remember, too, how economic realities affect the organization of a city--the banks are here because they want to be near the... more » Franklin Harris: Anthologies like Eclipse and Fast Forward seem to be filing part of the void left by the decline of fiction magazines. more » Grey_Area: The first two volumes of Eclipse were truly great. What I really dig is that these are general Speculative Fiction, no themes. You ain't going to cott... more » -
#indygiants
Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future
Genre publishing has taken some hard hits in recent years — but a slew of independent publishers is still out there, charting the unknown regions of book publishing and keeping your reading lists weird. Here are our favorite indy presses.
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#bookreview
"Finch" Is Interdimensional, Extraterrestrial Biosteam Noir
Reading Jeff VanderMeer's latest novel Finch, out this week, you're tempted to make up descriptors like "biosteam" and "spore noir." Inventive and haunting, the book is a hardboiled detective story set in a city overrun by spore-hacking mushroom people.
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#quoteoftheday
Bruce Sterling And Jeff VanderMeer Offer 2 Lessons On How To Build A Science-Fictional City
Science-fiction fans and writers, alike, tend to think of cities in too simplistic a fashion. Quotes from The Caryatids author Bruce Sterling and City Of Saints And Madmen author Jeff VanderMeer explain how you should really view urban infrastructure. More » -
#anthologieswecrave
3 New Anthologies Bring Werewolves, ADD-Afflicted Drinking Birds, And Awesomeness
This may be the best era for original anthologies since the days of Dangerous Visions. Jonathan Strahan announced the final list of contributors for Eclipse 3, and it's made of want. Other anthologies promise down-and-dirty werewolves, and stellar flash fiction. More » -
#unfilmablebooks
Is There Such A Thing As A Gloriously Unfilmable Book?
Hollywood has taken everything, from your childhood toys to the novels that haunted your dreams, and turned them into splashy vehicles for young Scientologists to gallop through. Are there any books that Hollywood absolutely can't turn into movies? Or shouldn't? More » -
#futurecities
The Most Fantastical Cities On Earth, As Chosen By Ursula K. Le Guin And Michael Moorcock
Their books take you to strange cities from other planets, alternate histories and mythical realms. But what real-life cities inspire Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, Nalo Hopkinson and China Miéville? The SharedWorlds project found out, with fascinating results. More » -
#literaryjournals
Joyce Carol Oates And Jeff Vandermeer, Together At Last
Back in 2002, superstar literary journal Conjunctions redefined the intersection of science fiction and lit with its "New Wave Fabulists" issue. Now they're trying to do the same for urban fantasy. More » -
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#books
Will a Mega-Dose of Classical Philosphy Destroy Jeff VanderMeer's Brain?
Urban fantasy writer Jeff VanderMeer has decided to alter his neurological makeup by reading 60 classic works of philosophy in 60 days - and recording online what the experiment is doing to his brain. -
#conceptart
Inside the City of Insect Motors and Mushroom People
Earlier today we wrote about Jeff VanderMeer's work, and how a lot of it takes place in a slipstream city called Ambergris (yes, it's named after a whale secretion). Like China Mieville's city New Crobuzon, Ambergris is a blend of bug-machines, aliens, and recognizable, contemporary urban landmarks. That's probably why Ambergris has inspired so many artists, like Vladimir Kush (above), to imagine the city in their work. Another, darker, vision of Ambergris below. More » -
#conceptart
The Gray Caps Will Take Over the World with Their Mushroom Brain Implants
John Coulthart has just posted his cover design for the re-release of Jeff VanderMeer's novel, Shriek: An Afterword. This is the cover image, by Ben Templesmith — it shows a mysterious "gray cap," one of an oppressed underground people who have this bizarre mushroom tech that will allow them to take over a city. You can see the full glory of Coulthart's book cover below. More »
