bldgblog.blogspot.com - 9/17/2009
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The novels of Jeff VanderMeer fall somewhere between science fiction, urban surrealism, dark fantasy, magical realism, and even horror comedy. VanderMeer's literary range becomes immediately apparent when you consider that he's been "a two-time winner (six-time finalist) of the World Fantasy ...
jeffvandermeer.com - 9/24/2009
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jeffvandermeer.com —
So, here’re details and the spiel about Last
Drink Bird Head, but it’s a spiel for a...
good cause, so please read–and please spread this link through your own blogs. We’d love to sell out this hardcover edition well before ...
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LAST DRINK BIRD HEAD FOR CHARITY: Party, Pre-Orders, ...
charles-tan.blogspot.com - 9/22/2009
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Happy birthday to Damien G Walter and George
R. R. Martin (apparently, my new claim to fame...
is that I share the same birthday with two awesome writers...) And for your speculative fiction Philippines, the navy spies on a national artist... and gets ...
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September 21, 2009 Links and Plugs
bscreview.com - 9/24/2009
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bscreview.com —
Jeff VanderMeer has announced Last Drink Bird Head
, a book full of flash fiction by some...
authors I dig (over 80 of them all told), with proceeds going to charity, namely ProLiteracy. More after the jump... Related posts: Book Review – The Fifth Head of Cerberus 2009 Locus Award ...
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a Last Drink Bird Head for Charity
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Bruce Sterling And Jeff VanderMeer Offer 2 Lessons On How To Build A Science-Fictional City [Quote Of The Day]
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... And more recently in 2006, BLDGBLOG talked to Jeff VanderMeer about the biggest mistake that science-fiction writers tend to make in thinking about cities and their infrastructure: ...
SF Tidbits for 9/18/09
SF Signal —
Interviews and Profiles: Here's a video interview with Charles Coleman Finlay (The Patriot Witch) @Rescued By Nerds: Jeff Somers (The Eternal Prison). @Fantasy Magazine: Nancy Kress. BLDGBLOG interviews Jeff VanderMeer about Science Fiction and the City. In 2006, Ken Hollings profiled Philip K. Dick on a radio show. The audio recording is now available. [via Boing Boing]
On September 22 at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central, Baen author ...
September 21, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
... is that I share the same birthday with two awesome writers...) And for your speculative fiction Philippines, the navy spies on a national artist... and gets caught! And Persnickety Snark interviews Filipino YA book blogger Tarie. Now back to your scheduled programming... Interviews SF Signal interviews JC Hutchins. Rae Bryant interviews Nancy Kress. Science Fiction and the City interviews Jeff VanderMeer. Genre TV (video) interviews Anna DeStefano, Leanna Renee Hieber, ...
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Feature: "Who Is Jeff VanderMeer?"
charles-tan.blogspot.com 5/20/2009 — Every Wednesday, I have an essay or feature article on any topic that catches my fancy! Roughly three ago, I didn't know who Jeff VanderMeer was (and for that matter, I didn't know who Jeffrey Ford was a few years back--what is it with the J's?). ...
VanderMeer, Finch & Fungus
rimworlds.com 10/15/2009 — Underland Press just sent me along an advance copy of Jeff VanderMeer’s latest Ambergris novel – Finch.
Jeff has been billed as a fantasy author though (one of the best) and with limited budget, limited time and a publicly acknowledged preference for science fiction, he has not ...
Book/Magazine Review: Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
charles-tan.blogspot.com 10/20/2009 — Every Monday, I'll be doing bite-sized book/magazine reviews. Disclosure: The publisher sent a review copy for the purposes of this review. There are several ways to read Finch although for the sake of brevity, I'll tackle two of the most ...
Illustrating VanderMeer
library.plymouth.edu 10/2/2009 — Which came first; the story or the illustration? When you think about the illustrated stories that you’ve read, whether they have been in the form of a graphic novel, a picture book, or comic strip–you might ask yourself this question. In an ...
Review: Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
rimworlds.com 10/23/2009 — Finch by Jeff VanderMeer.
Available shortly from Underland Press (click the book cover to go there)
Well. I have to say that it is really nice to be able to write a positive, if not positively raving, review.
But first, caveats & etceteras.
My review is based on an ARC so, as the ...
Book/Magazine Review: Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
charles-tan.blogspot.com 5/19/2009 — Every Monday, I'll be doing spoiler-free, bite-sized book/magazine reviews. Shriek: An Afterword is Jeff VanderMeer's second novel set in his Ambergris cosmology. There's a lot of elements with regards to the book that I want to talk about so ...
The Big Idea: Jeff VanderMeer
whatever.scalzi.com 21 days ago — Jeff VanderMeer returns to his weird, fantastical city of Ambergris in his new novel Finch, but as he explains in this Big Idea, there’s more going on in this stand-alone tale than just the rich vein of fantasy he’s previously explored in ...
An Interview with Jeff VanderMeer
primastoria.com 10/16/2009 — World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer grew up in the Fiji Islands and has had fiction published in over 20 countries. His books, including the bestselling City of Saints & Madmen, have made the year's best lists of Publishers Weekly, LA Weekly, ...