Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff Vandermeer (born 7 July 1968 Pennsylvania) is an American author of fantastic stories.

With its working for the Peace Corps parents, he spent his childhood in the Fiji Islands. He studied at the University of Florida journalism first, then English, and finally Latin American history, his studies, however, did not complete. Later Vandermeer attended at Michigan State University writing seminars and in the student magazine Merlin 's Pen published articles on teaching creative writing. Vandermeer is one of the founding members of the Council for Literature of the Fantastic at the University of Rhode Iceland.

His works he referred to as magic realism and actually relate to, among other things, on the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter and Vladimir Nabokov, also plays and builds Vandermeer to those for the current Anglo-American very exotic authors such as Alfred Kubin and Fritz of Herzmanovsky to Orlando.

Besides his work as a writer, he works as an editor for various publishers, and has worked as an editor of anthologies.

Award

Jeff Vandermeer received in 2000, the World Fantasy Award for the novella The Transformation of Martin Lake (Eng. The Transformation of Martin Lake ).

The city of saints and madmen

The city of saints and madmen, write to the Vandermeer since the early nineties, in turn subjected to his main work and constant changes and extensions. It is a collection of various short stories, all of which play in the fictional town of Ambra. This was long ago settled by > Pirates, " who settled on the river Mott and the original inhabitants, the fungus-growing gray hats killed and sold. However, a few fled into the ground and attack since random parts of the city and its inhabitants. Ambra itself, the city of saints and madmen, and their inhabitants are bizarre, so, for example, the supporters and the opponents of a deceased opera composers deliver a bloody civil war.

  • Dradin, love: The story of a young missionary who failed in the southern jungles of the world, comes back to Ambergris, falls in love with an unknown beauty, and struggles with the madness. This story is told usually authorially.
  • Hoegbottons Guide to the Early History of Ambergris by: Written by the historian Duncan Shriek, and provided with the critical and sardonic footnotes.
  • The Transformation of Martin Lake: Two texts are interspersed Firstly, the authorial described experiences of Martin Lake, which is a > Invitation to a Beheading '( a Nabokov novel is called so ) rotate. Secondly, a factual text by Janice Shriek about career and work of this painter.
  • The Curious Case of X is about a writer who pretends to have invented Ambra only and to be able to switch back and forth between Chicago and ambergris, and is being studied in a Irrenstalt of Ambra by a doctor.
  • Contains twelve other departments with short stories and various partially fragmentary materials. Among other things, you will find here: an exchange of letters on the mysterious disappearance of Patient X from his cell; a monograph on King squid leg keeps a confusing bibliography; Records of the rich trade and publishing family Hoegbottons. The annex is completed by a glossary for the special features of ambergris. The Annex offers more corny jokes and humor as the ' serious ' stories of the first half.

The City of Saints & Madmen stands out with unusual narrative capers. Thus, the biographical section depends authors Vandermeer along with the story The Strange Case of X, the bibliography contains Vander Meers (yet) written books from the world Ambras. Moreover, one can as readers strive thus to discover some secret messages and decrypt.

Works

Novels

  • Dradin, in Love, 1996
  • Veniss Underground, 2003
  • Shriek, 2008, ISBN 3-608-93778-1, Shriek: An Afterword, 2006
  • South China Sea ( Predator ), 2008
  • The situation in 2008
  • Finch, 2009
  • Halo Evolutions: short stories from the Halo Universe, 2010, along with other authors.

Collections

  • The Book of Frog, 1989
  • City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris, 2001
  • City of saints and madmen, 2005, ISBN 3-608-93773-0, City of Saints and Madmen (significantly extended version of the 2001 edition ), 2002
  • The Day Dali Died, 2003
  • City of Saints and Madmen ( expanded version of the 2002 edition ), 2004 (German city of saints and madmen )

Secret Life, 2004

  • Why Should I Cut Your Throat? , 2004
  • Vandermeer 2005, 2005
  • Secret Lives, 2006
  • A Heart for Lucretia, 2007, ISBN 3-926-12671- X
  • The Surgeon 's Tale, 2007 ( with Cat Rambo )

As editor

  • Leviathan 2, 1998 ( with Rose Secrest )
  • Leviathan 3, 2002 ( with Forrest Aguirre )
  • The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and discredited Diseases, 2003 ( with Mark Roberts)
  • Best American Fantasy, 2007 ( with Ann VanderMeer )
  • Mapping the Beast: The Best of Leviathan, 2007
  • Polluto, 2008 ( with Rhys Hughes, Steve Redwood )
  • The New Weird, 2008 ( with Ann VanderMeer )
  • Steampunk, 2008 ( with Ann VanderMeer )
  • Best American Fantasy 2, 2008 ( with Ann VanderMeer )
  • Fast Ships, Black Sails, 2008 ( with Ann VanderMeer )

Others

  • The end of 2008, the Australian band The Church released a CD called Shriek: Excerpts from the soundtrack, which was intended as a possible " soundtrack to book" and was developed in close collaboration between the author and the band.

Links and Reviews

  • Literature of and over Jeff Vandermeer in the catalog that German national library
  • Official website (English )
  • Guardian: City of Saints and madmen
  • Epilogue: City of Saints and madmen
  • Fantasy Guide: City of Saints and madmen
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( 21st century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (United States)
  • Fantasy literature
  • Science fiction literature
  • Novel, epic
  • Support of the World Fantasy Awards
  • Americans
  • Born in 1968
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