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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris—previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen—Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies. Narrated with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions by ex-society figure Janice Shriek, this afterword presents a vivid gallery of characters and events, emphasizing the adventures of Janice's brother Duncan, a historian obsessed with a doomed love affair and a secret that may kill or transform him; a war between rival publishing houses that will change Ambergris forever; and the gray caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies who have been waiting underground for their chance to mold the future of the city. Part academic treatise, part tell-all biography, after this introduction to the Family Shriek, you'll never look at history in quite the same way again. Review:"Here is a desert island book, a tale you can lose yourself in for days." Gene Wolfe Synopsis:World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer's first Ambergris novel Synopsis:Shriek: An Afterword is the first novel set in Ambergris, World Fantasy-award winning author Jeff VanderMeer’s best-loved setting. Praise for Shriek: An Afterword "Here is a desert island book, a tale you can lose yourself in for days, a novel of character in which the setting—the magnificently gritty city-state named Ambergris—proves as the light fails to be the finest character of all." —Gene Wolfe "There's a madness in Jeff VanderMeer's literary eye, and I would be a liar if I didn't admit it seems intimately familiar. VanderMeer envisions an outlaw literature of shrieks and shouts and a screaming across the sky, worth a thousand polite and respectable mutterings. I, for one, am listening." —Steve Erickson “An enthralling book which takes you into the vivid and superbly-realised world of Ambergris. It is in turn unsettling, moving and thrilling—with passages of writing that can be dryly funny on one page . . . and beautiful on the next.” —Clare Dudman "Jeff VanderMeer is an extraordinary writer. His vision of Ambergris is passionate, beautiful, complex, terrifying. What is remarkable about Shriek: An Afterword is the way it combines such surreal imagery with intensely human feeling. He writes about real people—about the real world." —Tamar Yellin Praise for City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris “Somewhere at the intersection of pulp and Surrealism, drawing on the very best of both traditions, is Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris. Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humour, the stories engross and challenge endlessly. Ambergris is one of my favourite haunts in fiction.” —China Miéville on City of Saints and Madmen “A rare treasure, to be tasted with both relish and respect. It is the work of an original. It’s what you’ve been looking for.” —Michael Moorcock "Beautifully written, virtually hallucinatory work... connoisseurs of the finest in postmodern fantasy will find it enormously rewarding.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred review) Praise for Jeff VanderMeer “Secret Life, an utter dazzlement, demonstrates one of this literary era's defining truths, that 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 “Veniss Underground is full of beautiful sentences, black humor and terrible wonders … it marks VanderMeer as a novelist to be reckoned with.” —San Francisco Chronicle Synopsis:Shriek: An Afterword is the first novel set in Ambergris, World Fantasy-award winning author Jeff VanderMeer's best-loved setting. Praise for Shriek: An Afterword "Here is a desert island book, a tale you can lose yourself in for days, a novel of character in which the setting--the magnificently gritty city-state named Ambergris--proves as the light fails to be the finest character of all." --Gene Wolfe "There's a madness in Jeff VanderMeer's literary eye, and I would be a liar if I didn't admit it seems intimately familiar. VanderMeer envisions an outlaw literature of shrieks and shouts and a screaming across the sky, worth a thousand polite and respectable mutterings. I, for one, am listening." --Steve Erickson "An enthralling book which takes you into the vivid and superbly-realised world of Ambergris. It is in turn unsettling, moving and thrilling--with passages of writing that can be dryly funny on one page . . . and beautiful on the next." --Clare Dudman "Jeff VanderMeer is an extraordinary writer. His vision of Ambergris is passionate, beautiful, complex, terrifying. What is remarkable about Shriek: An Afterword is the way it combines such surreal imagery with intensely human feeling. He writes about real people--about the real world." --Tamar Yellin Praise for City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris "Somewhere at the intersection of pulp and Surrealism, drawing on the very best of both traditions, is Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris. Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humour, the stories engross and challenge endlessly. Ambergris is one of my favourite haunts in fiction." --China Miville on City of Saints and Madmen "A rare treasure, to be tasted with both relish and respect. It is the work of an original. It's what you've been looking for." --Michael Moorcock "Beautifully written, virtually hallucinatory work... connoisseurs of the finest in postmodern fantasy will find it enormously rewarding." --Publisher's Weekly (starred review) Praise for Jeff VanderMeer "Secret Life, an utter dazzlement, demonstrates one of this literary era's defining truths, that 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 "Veniss Underground is full of beautiful sentences, black humor and terrible wonders ' it marks VanderMeer as a novelist to be reckoned with." --San Francisco Chronicle About the AuthorJeff VanderMeer is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, as well as a past finalist for the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His books have made the best-of lists of Publishers Weekly, Publishers News, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Weekly, Locus, SF Site, and many others. His short fiction has appeared in several year’s best anthologies. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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