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Tagged: Author, Editor.<div class="browsingBtns"> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=vandermeer_jeff'" value="Prev" /> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=vandermeer_jeff'" value="Next" /> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=vandermeer_jeff'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> <input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" > <input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=vandermeer_jeff&abc'" > <input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=vandermeer_jeff'" > <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img> </div> <a href='/gallery.php?id=Vandermeer-SecretLives.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/Vandermeer-SecretLives.jpg' alt='pic'></a> (1968-    ) US editor and author, married to Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a>, who began to publish work of genre interest, after at least one story published in college, with "So the Dead Walk Slowly" in <a href="/entry/fear">Fear</a> for November 1989, and who is probably best known for the Ambergris sequence of novels and tales, which begins with two novellas, Dradin, in Love: A Tale of Elsewhen & Otherwhere (1996 chap) and The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris by Duncan Shriek (1999 chap) – both assembled with considerable additional material as City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris (coll 2001; exp vt City of Saints and Madmen 2002) – and continues with Shriek: An Afterword (2006) and Finch (2009). Although the <a href="/entry/cities">City</a> of Ambergris itself gives off a <a href="/entry/dying_earth">Dying Earth</a> ambience, the series is not in fact fixed into an sf chronology, and reads as <a href="/entry/equipoise">Equipoisal</a> between sf and fantasy, adroitly unfixed to any genre bondage [for Dark Fantasy and Weird Fiction, see The <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under links below; VanderMeer would almost certainly prefer to think of his work as contributing more significantly to the latter mode]. Shriek is a family romance of considerable intensity; Finch adds noir topoi to the previous admixture, featuring a human detective tasked with uncovering a double murder: one of a fellow human; one of a member of the "spore-based" species now ruling the city. Though the earlier stories assembled as City of Saints and Madmen show the influence of various writers, including J G <a href="/entry/ballard_j_g">Ballard</a>, Jorge Luis <a href="/entry/borges_jorge_luis">Borges</a>, M John <a href="/entry/harrison_m_john">Harrison</a> and Michael <a href="/entry/moorcock_michael">Moorcock</a>, these influences have been successfully absorbed in his more recent tales, where the agglutinations of earlier work are far more subtle. VanderMeer's association with the tradition of weird fiction has been salutary, as his two central anthologies to date – The New Weird (anth 2008) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> and The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (anth 2011) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> – have done much to formulate (and effectively to create) that tradition. The Weird is particularly important, as it comprises a vast and exceedingly ambitious attempt to represent weird fiction as a significant (and generically describable) spectrum of <a href="/entry/fantastika">Fantastika</a> (see <a href="/entry/new_weird">New Weird</a>); it won a <a href="/entry/world_fantasy_award">World Fantasy Award</a> as best anthology. Much of his fiction is not unnaturally best understood within the frame of this ongoing project; very little of it can be thought of profitably as pure sf, and is not here described in detail. The Veniss tales assembled in the various iterations of Veniss Underground (2003) [see Checklist for details] are a partial exception, though its Urban Fantasy architectonic [see The <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under links below] shapes the telling of the tale, whose various protagonists penetrate further and further <a href="/entry/underground">Underground</a> into the <a href="/entry/parody">Parody</a> <a href="/entry/cities">City</a>-scape far beneath Veniss itself, where they are transformed into <a href="/entry/cyborgs">Cyborgs</a> and/or <a href="/entry/monsters">Monsters</a> whose features and favours grotesquely ape their daylight natures. Increasingly, VanderMeer is shaping his work into a project of recognition whose focus is the times to come. More concisely, and with greater narrative control, the Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy sequence comprising Annihilation (2014), Authority (2014) and Acceptance (2014), all three assembled as Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (omni 2014), explores a similar venue, where Southern Gothic imagery combines with Urban Fantasy psychogeographies to generate a sense that Area X is a kind of Little Big <a href="/entry/pocket_universe">Pocket Universe</a> or <a href="/entry/zone">Zone</a>, accessible through Portals located somewhere deep in the northern swamps of what seems to be Florida [for Urban Fantasy, Little Big and Portal see The <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under links below]; some of the imagery evokes the cosmic horror (see <a href="/entry/horror_in_sf">Horror in SF</a>) of H P <a href="/entry/lovecraft_h_p">Lovecraft</a>. Annihilation won the <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a> as best novel and was adapted for <a href="/entry/cinema">Cinema</a> as <a href="/entry/annihilation">Annihilation</a> (2018), directed by Alex <a href="/entry/garland_alex">Garland</a>. Borne (2017), which initiates the loose Borne sequence, is also richly concise, a narratively energized portrayal of a nameless <a href="/entry/cities">City</a> which, though the tale is designatedly set in a <a href="/entry/near_future">Near Future</a> dominated (as in Southern Reach) by a mysterious corporation, generates a fecund <a href="/entry/ruined_earth">Ruined Earth</a> ambience, layers folding into more layers as the narrator discovers the eponymous talking cephalopod in the fur of a gigantic <a href="/entry/genetic_engineering">Genetically Engineered</a> bear that ravages the city: and all, as it were, have their say. The first third of the loosely connected Dead Astronauts (2019) surrealized the sf Western, with three "gunslingers" plunged into a <a href="/entry/time_opera">Time Opera</a> quest through various rule-bound worlds (see <a href="/entry/videogame">Videogame</a>) for what might be called the origin story of an inimical world-desecrating corporation known as the Company (see <a href="/entry/climate_change">Climate Change</a>). Later sections of the tale engage in typographical games that constitute a kind of body English of the abysses and the chaos created through the ongoing destruction of the world(s). The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, a <a href="/entry/young_adult">Young Adult</a> sequence beginning with A Peculiar Peril (2020), features a young member of the Lambshead family [for the Thackery L Lambshead anthologies see Checklist below], whose adventures in a fantasticated <a href="/entry/alternate_worlds">Alternate World</a> combine <a href="/entry/steampunk">Steampunk</a> and mythopoeisis in a mix far looser than the term <a href="/entry/equipoise">Equipoisal</a> would suggest; visitations from Jules <a href="/entry/verne_jules">Verne</a> and H G <a href="/entry/wells_h_g">Wells</a> shake the cage of the premise, politely. Increasingly, VanderMeer is shaping his work into a project in which it is increasingly possible to recognize a poetics for the new century; even a singleton like Hummingbird Salamander (2021), a thriller on <a href="/entry/ecology">Ecological</a> themes set on the <a href="/entry/near_future">Near Future</a> Pacific Rim, contributes to the ongoing project. Another joint compilation with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a>, The Big Book of Science Fiction (anth 2016), won a <a href="/entry/locus_award">Locus Award</a> as best anthology. [JC] see also <a href="/entry/rhysling_award">Rhysling Award</a>; <a href="/entry/sf_site">SF Site</a>. <h3 id="chklst">Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer</h3> born Bellefonte, Pennsylvania: 7 July 1968 works <input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=vandermeer_jeff&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=vandermeer_jeff'"> series Ambergris <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Dradin+in+Love+A+Tale+of+Elsewhen+and+Otherwhere&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Dradin, in Love: A Tale of Elsewhen & Otherwhere</a> (Tallahassee, Florida, Buzzcity Press, 1996) [chap: Ambergris: illus/pb/Michael Shores]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Hoegbotton+Guide+to+the+Early+History+of&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris by Duncan Shriek</a> (Westborough, Massachusetts: Necropolitan Press, 1999) [chap: Ambergris: pb/Jeffrey Thomas] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=City+of+Saints+and+Madmen+The+Book+of+Ambergris&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris</a> (Gillette, New Jersey: Cosmos Books, 2001) [omni/coll: incorporating the above two plus much other material: Ambergris: pb/Scott Eagle] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=City+of+Saints+and+Madmen&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">City of Saints and Madmen</a> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, 2002) [omni/coll: exp vt of the above: introduction by Michael <a href="/entry/moorcock_michael">Moorcock</a>: Ambergris: hb/Scott Eagle]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Shriek+An+Afterword&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Shriek: An Afterword</a> (London: Macmillan, 2006) [Ambergris: pb/Jonathan Edwards]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Finch&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Finch</a> (Portland, Oregon: Underland Press, 2009) [Ambergris: pb/John <a href="/entry/coulthart_john">Coulthart</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Ambergris&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Ambergris</a> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) [omni of the above two and City of Saints and Madmen: Ambergris: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Ambergris&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Ambergris</a> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2022) [omni: published in two volumes: first reprinting the above: second adding additional matter: Ambergris: hb/Amando Veve]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> Veniss <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Veniss+Underground&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Veniss Underground</a> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, 2003) [Veniss: pb/Damon Andrews] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Veniss+Underground/Balzac+War&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Veniss Underground/Balzac's War</a> (London: Macmillan/Tor, 2004) [exp vt of the above as coll: adding "Balzac's War" which first appeared 1997 The <a href="/entry/third_alternative_the">Third Alternative</a> #14: Veniss: pb/Larry <a href="/entry/rostant_larry">Rostant</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Veniss+Underground&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Veniss Underground</a> (New York: Bantam Spectra, 2005) [coll: exp vt of the above with additional material: Veniss: pb/Mike Dringenberg]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Balzac+War&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Balzac's War</a> (Tallahassee, Florida: Cheeky Frawg Books, 2011) [coll: ebook: rev vt of the above adding "Jensible and the Metal Dragon": na/Jeremy Zerfoss]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Annihilation&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Annihilation</a> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) [Area X: Southern Reach: pb/Eric Nyquist]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Authority&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Authority</a> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) [Area X: Southern Reach: pb/Eric Nyquist]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Acceptance&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Acceptance</a> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) [Area X: Southern Reach: pb/Eric Nyquist] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Area+X+The+Southern+Reach+Trilogy&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy</a> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) [omni of the above three: Area X: Southern Reach: hb/Eric Nyquist] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Southern+Reach+Trilogy&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Southern Reach Trilogy</a> (Baltimore, Maryland: Cemetery Dance, 2021) [vt of the above: hb/Pablo Delcan]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Absolution&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Absolution</a> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux/MCD, 2024) [Area X: Southern Reach: hb/]</li> </ul> Borne <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Borne&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Borne</a> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) [Borne: hb/Tyler Comrie and Rodrigo Corral]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Strange+Bird+A+Borne+Story&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Strange Bird: A Borne Story</a> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) [Borne: pb/Sungpyo Hong] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Complete+Borne&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Complete Borne</a> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2018) [omni of the above two and other material: Borne: illus/Eric Nyquist: hb/Vasily Polovtsev]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Dead+Astronauts&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Dead Astronauts</a> (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux/MCD, 2019) [loosely connected to Borne: hb/Alycia Rainaud]</li> </ul> The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=A+Peculiar+Peril&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Peculiar Peril</a> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) [Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead: hb/]</li> </ul> individual titles <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Predator+The+South+China+Sea&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Predator: The South China Sea</a> (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books, 2008) [tie to the <a href="/entry/predator">Predator</a> universe: Predator: pb/Stephen <a href="/entry/youll_stephen">Youll</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Hummingbird+Salamander&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Hummingbird Salamander</a> (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux/MCD, 2021) [hb/Rodrigo Corral and Justin Metz]</li> </ul> collections and stories <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Book+of+Frog&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Book of Frog</a> (Gainesville, Florida: The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 1989) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Lyric+of+the+Highway+Mariner&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Lyric of the Highway Mariner</a> (Troy, New York: Nocturnal Publications, 1991) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/Penelope Miller]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Book+of+Lost+Places&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Book of Lost Places</a> (San Francisco, California: Dark Regions Press, 1996) [coll: pb/Rodger Gerberding]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Day+Dali+Died+Poetry+and+Flash+Fiction&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Day Dali Died: Poetry and Flash Fiction</a> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, 2003) [coll: fiction and poetry: pb/Hawk Alfredson]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Exchange+by+Nicholas+Sporlender+illustrated&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Exchange by Nicholas Sporlender, illustrated by Louis Verden</a> (place not given: ?Tallahassee, Florida: "Hoegbotton and Sons", 2001) [novelette: chap: pb/Eric Schaller]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Secret+Life&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Secret Life</a> (Urbana, Illinois: Golden Gryphon Press, 2004) [coll: hb/Scott Eagle] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Secret+Life+The+Select+Fire+Remix&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Secret Life: The Select Fire Remix</a> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, 2006) [coll: pb/Scott Eagle]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Secret+Lives&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Secret Lives</a> (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2006) [coll: hb/Tony Rentzepis]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Surgeon+Tale+and+Other+Stories&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories</a> (Seattle, Washington and Tallahassee, FLorida: Two Free Lancer Press, 2007) with Cat <a href="/entry/rambo_cat">Rambo</a> [coll: chap: illus/Kristine Dikeman: pb/James and Jeremy Owen]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Situation&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Situation</a> (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2008) [novella: chap: hb/Scott Eagle]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Third+Bear&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Third Bear</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2010) [coll: pb/Jacob McMurray]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Three+Quests+of+the+Wizard+Sarnod&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod</a> (Baltimore, Maryland: WSFA Press, 2010) [novella: chap: introduction by Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a>: hb/John <a href="/entry/coulthart_john">Coulthart</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Compass+of+His+Bones+and+Other+Stories&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Compass of His Bones and Other Stories</a> (Tallahassee, Florida: Cheeky Frawg Books, 2011) [coll: ebook: na/Jeremy Zerfoss]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Strange+Bird+A+Borne+Story&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Strange Bird: A Borne Story</a> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) [ebook: na/]</li> </ul> nonfiction <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Why+Should+I+Cut+Your+Throat+and+Other+Nonfiction&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Why Should I Cut Your Throat & Other Nonfiction</a> (Gillette, New Jersey: Cosmos Books, 2002) [nonfiction: coll: chap: pb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Why+Should+I+Cut+Your+Throat+Excursions+in+the&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Why Should I Cut Your Throat? Excursions in the World of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror</a> (Austin, Texas: MonkeyBrain Books, 2004) [nonfiction: coll: exp vt of the above: pb/Scott Eagle]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Booklife+Strategies+and+Survival+Tips+for+the&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2009) [nonfiction: pb/John <a href="/entry/coulthart_john">Coulthart</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Kosher+Guide+to+Imaginary+Animals+The+Evil&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2010) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [nonfiction: chap: hb/John <a href="/entry/coulthart_john">Coulthart</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Monstrous+Creatures+Explorations+of+Fantasy&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy through Essays, Articles and Reviews</a> (Bowie, Maryland: Guide Dog Books, 2011) [nonfiction: coll: hb/Eric Orchard]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Steampunk+Bible+An+Illustrated+Guide+to+the&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature</a> (New York: Abrams Image, 2011) with S J Chambers [nonfiction: <a href="/entry/steampunk">Steampunk</a>: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Wonderbook+The+Illustrated+Guide+to+Creating&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction</a> (New York: Abrams Image, 2013) [nonfiction: pb/Jeremy Zerfoss]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Steampunk+User+Manual+An+Illustrated&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Steampunk User's Manual: An Illustrated Practical and Whimsical Guide to Creating Retro-Futurist Dreams</a> (New York: Abrams Image, 2014) with Desirina Bosckovich [nonfiction: <a href="/entry/steampunk">Steampunk</a>: hb/]</li> </ul> works as editor series Leviathan <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Leviathan+Volume+One+Into+the+Gray&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Leviathan, Volume One: Into the Gray</a> (place not given: Mule Press, 1996) with Luke O'Grady [mag/anth: Leviathan: pb/Duane Bray]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Leviathan+%232+The+Legacy+of+Boccaccio&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Leviathan #2: The Legacy of Boccaccio</a> (Tallahassee, Florida: The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 1998) with Rose Secrest [anth: Leviathan: pb/Scott Eagle]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Leviathan+%233&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Leviathan #3</a> (Tallahassee, Florida: The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2002) with Forrest <a href="/entry/aguirre_forrest">Aguirre</a> [anth: Leviathan: pb/Dawn Andrews] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Mapping+the+Beast+The+Best+of+Leviathan&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Mapping the Beast: The Best of Leviathan</a> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, 2007) [anth: selected stories from the above three: Leviathan: pb/Oliver Wetter]</li> </ul></li> </ul> Thackery T Lambshead <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Thackery+T+Lambshead+Pocket+Guide+to&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases</a> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2001) with Mark Roberts [anth: sampler with eight stories: issued at the 2002 World Fantasy <a href="/entry/conventions">Convention</a>: Thackery T Lambshead: pb/uncredited] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Thackery+T+Lambshead+Pocket+Guide+to&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases</a> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2003) with Mark Roberts [anth: full version of the above: Thackery T Lambshead: illus/hb/John <a href="/entry/coulthart_john">Coulthart</a> and others]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Thackery+T+Lambshead+Cabinet+of+Curiosities&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Thackery T Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities</a> (New York: HarperCollins/Voyager, 2011) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: Thackery T Lambshead: hb/James Iacobelli]</li> </ul> Steampunk <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Steampunk&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Steampunk</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2008) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: Steampunk: pb/Insect Lab]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Steampunk+II+Steampunk+Reloaded&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2010) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: Steampunk: pb/Ann Monn]</li> </ul> Best American Fantasy <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Best+American+Fantasy&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Best American Fantasy</a> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, 2007) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: Best American Fantasy: pb/Scott Eagle]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Best+American+Fantasy+2&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Best American Fantasy 2</a> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, 2008) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: Best American Fantasy: pb/Oliver Wetter]</li> </ul> Big Book <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Big+Book+of+Science+Fiction&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Big Book of Science Fiction</a> (New York: Vintage Books, 2016) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: Big Book: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/pennington_bruce">Pennington</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Big+Book+of+Classic+Fantasy&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Big Book of Classic Fantasy</a> (New York: Vintage Books, 2019) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: Big Book: pb/J J <a href="/entry/grandville_j_j">Grandville</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Big+Book+of+Modern+Fantasy&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Big Book of Modern Fantasy</a> (New York: Vintage Books, 2020) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: Big Book: pb/Joe Montgomery from Leonora Carrington]</li> </ul> individual titles <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Album+Zutique&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Album Zutique</a> (Tallahassee, Florida: The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2003) [anth: pb/Jonathan Edwards]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Fast+Ships+Black+Sails&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Fast Ships, Black Sails</a> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2008) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: pb/Scott Altmann]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+New+Weird&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The New Weird</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2008) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: pb/Ann Monn]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Last+Drink+Bird+Head+Flash+Fiction+for+Charity&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity</a> (Tallahassee, Florida: The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2009) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: hb/Scott Eagle]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=odd&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">odd?</a> (Tallahassee, Florida: Cheeky Frawg Books, 2011) [anth: ebook: na/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Weird+A+Compendium+of+Strange+and+Dark&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories</a> (London: Atlantic Books/Corvus, 2011) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: pb/Nic Cheetham]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Time+Traveller+Almanac&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Time Traveller's Almanac</a> (London: Head of Zeus, 2013) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/time_travel">Time Travel</a>: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Sisters+of+the+Revolution+A+Feminist+Speculative&field-author=Vandermeer+Jeff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology</a> (Oakland, California: PM Press, 2015) with Ann <a href="/entry/vandermeer_ann">VanderMeer</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/feminism">Feminism</a>: pb/Josh MacFee]</li> </ul> about the author <ul class="x"> <li>Benjamin J Robertson. <a 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