īy turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose-and find-yourself again.

And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago. From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy.

An artist receives an invitation to a beheading-and finds himself enchanted. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels (Borne, Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts), and The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Acceptance, and Authority), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Finch: An Afterword, and Shriek. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited-an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.Ĭity of elegance and squalor. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: The Ambergris Trilogy. AmbergrisAuthor(s): Jeff VanderMeerFrom the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy. From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen.

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