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Jeff VanderMeeris an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy.
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Jeff VanderMeeris an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. The trilogy’s first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among VanderMeer’s other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction.
VanderMeer has been called “one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today,” with The New Yorker naming him the “King of Weird Fiction”. VanderMeer’s fiction is noted for eluding genre classifications even as his works bring in themes and elements from genres such as postmodernism, ecofiction, the New Weird and post-apocalyptic fiction.
VanderMeer’s writing has been described as “evocative” and containing “intellectual observations both profound and disturbing,” and has been compared with the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Henry David Thoreau.
So many differing opinions and philosophies… are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
American writer (born 1968)
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
American writer (born 1968)
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
American writer (born 1968)
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or “convulsive” beauty – beauty in the service of liberty.
American writer (born 1968)
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer’s head. In fiction, you just hope you’re precise enough to convey the intended effect.
American writer (born 1968)
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
American writer (born 1968)