VanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris Trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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Summary: "In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 VANVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "'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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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Summary: "From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Annihilation, comes a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the end of all things"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VANVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: 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. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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Summary: "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 tiesto an alternate Europe immersed in a war fought with strange tech and dark magic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Discusses the steampunk movement in fiction, film, art, music, and fashion, tracing its history from Victorian science fiction novels and detailing its evolution into modern popular culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.3 VANSummary: An anthology of original stories featuring a science fiction and fantasy romp through pirate-infested seas. The settings of these stories vary from the traditional 17th century Caribbean glory years of piracy to the frozen seas off colonial Boston to unnamed far future oceans to deep space itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FASSummary: Presents a collection of stories from the "new weird" genre-- a overlap of science fiction, fantasy, and horror-- from some of its well-known writers, along with commentaries and a story featuring emerging authors within the genre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VANSummary: Presents stories about mechanistic golems, infernal machines, airships, alternative history, other planets, and how the genre has influenced movies, television, comics, and the Internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESummary: An oversized anthology of dark and bizarre tales written throughout the past century includes entries by international best-sellers and award-winners, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Franz Kafka.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEISummary: Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018