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Jeff VanderMeer has been involved in the publishing industry from almost all perspectives for twenty-five years as a fiction writer, book reviewer, editor, publisher, publicist, teacher, and creative consultant. In that span, he has had novels published in fifteen languages, won multiple awards, and made the best-of-year lists of Publishers Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, the LA Weekly, and many others. His award-winning short fiction has been featured on Wired.com and Tor.com, as well as in Conjunctions, Black Clock, and American Fantastic Tales (Library of America). His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Barnes & Noble Review, the Huffington Post, and hundreds of others. In addition, he has edited or co-edited more than a dozen influential fiction anthologies for, among others, Bantam and Pan Macmillan. VanderMeer's work has been adapted into short films for Playstation Europe and videos featuring music by The Church. He is a frequent guest speaker at conferences around the world.
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Also by Jeff VanderMeer: Booklife
By Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, authors:
The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals
By Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors: The New Weird and Steampunk
$14.95/ trade paperback/ 288 pp./ 978-1-892391-98-8
August 2010 / Cover and interior design by Jacob McMurray,
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"VanderMeer proves again why he is so essential and why everybody should be reading him."
"One of our very best contemporary practitioners of the fantastic...superb prose, overwhelmingly odd situations, and fascinating, eccentric characters." -Publishers Weekly, starred review "Jeff VanderMeer is not to be trusted. He hypnotizes with shiny objects, bizarrely beautiful shapes and phrases, then (more often than not) gently drifts you into very dark places. You won't know where you're going till you get there and then, of course, it's too late." -Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy "Cunningly crafted stories full of wonder and intelligence...VanderMeer proves again why he is so essential and why everybody should be reading him." -Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "Vandermeer's stories hit one's hindbrain slantwise--they offer no easy answers and no comfort. Rather they are hard, brilliant gems meant to cut and shine--these are some of the most beautiful, upsetting, and accomplished tales I have ever read." -Catherynne M. Valente, author of The Orphan's Tales "The Third Bear contains some of my favorite stories of recent years. There's the meticulous workplace surrealism of "The Situation," the remorseless multi-world cataclysms of "The Goat Variations," the beautiful eldritch heartsickness of 'The Surgeon's Tale.' Jeff VanderMeer is one of the very best." -Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead "Annexing the weird half-lit spaces between genres, these stories lean sometimes into fantasy and sf, sometimes into metafiction, but are always deft and pleasurable reads. VanderMeer is one of the few writers out there able to coax something startling and necessary from anything...a very strong collection." -Brian Evenson, author of Last Days "In Jeff VanderMeer's story 'Lost,' the narrator is led out of his clenched, grieving, semi-paralyzed existence when he follows a spray of "emerald-velvet-burgundy-chocolate mushrooms." The tales in The Third Bear are akin to those mushrooms-vibrant, multicolored, mysterious and captivating. And as we follow their trail, we find ourselves within stunning, new worlds full of meanings that can transform us. Who knew that it was down in Tallahassee, not Geneva, that the world's largest synchrotron was revving up to engage those essential questions regarding time, space, and reality? And who knew that this infernal machine was located inside Jeff VanderMeer's head? VanderMeer knows what story can do to human consciousness. He is writer-as-evolutionary-agent and his mission is to spread the Weird Myth virus that invades the brain and wakes us up. The stories in this collection are smart, gorgeous, allusive, and tricky. VanderMeer is a fantasist extraordinaire. -Jack O'Connell, author of The Resurrectionist "Jeff VanderMeer's work is subversive and disquieting, possessed of an almost kinetic force in its impact upon the mind. Body horror gone viral, fairytales wrapped in their own entrails, and metafictional murder; these and other images herein are sure to leave their mark and fester in the subconscious. Already a well-regarded fantasist, The Third Bear reveals VanderMeer at his most fearsome." -Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence and Other Stories "One of the leading fantasists of this generation, Jeff VanderMeer's new collection is a must have for any discerning reader." -Rick Klaw "Reminiscent of Japanese surrealist author Haruki Murakami....VanderMeer's stories are provocative marvels." -Sacramento Book Review "...Crisp, elegant slightly detached prose and stories... much to admire and enjoy." Fantasy-Magazine.com "When you add all these [stories] together what you have is a collection that the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson might have written if they really wanted to mess with the heads of small children...Ten out of Ten." -Graeme's Fantasy Book Review Praise for Jeff VanderMeer "The best of our contemporary visionaries, who could well be creating the dominant literature of the 21st century." -Michael Moorcock, The Guardian "Jeff VanderMeer is an extraordinary writer...passionate, beautiful, complex, terrifying." -Tamar Yellin, author of The Genizah at the House of Shepher, winner of the Jewish Book Council Award "In the hands of a brilliant writer like Jeff VanderMeer, writing fantasy can be a means of serious artistic expression. In VanderMeer's hands, it is also playful, poignant, and utterly, wildly, imaginative." -Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story "One of the most literary fantasy writers or fantastic literary writers we've got working these days, take your pick." -Ron Hogan, Mediabistro's GalleyCat "One of modern fantasy's most original and fearless pioneers." -Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon |
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