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(0)Jeff VanderMeer
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
109 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory--she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape. But she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife...
2) Ambergris
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
865 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris Trilogy. 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, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
632 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The first book in a two-volume fantasy about a teenaged boy who inherits his grandfather's mansion and discovers three strange doors, evidence his grandfather did not die of natural causes but spectacularly unnatural ones, and clues to the family's ties to an alternate Europe immersed in a war fought with strange tech and dark magic"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Annihilation, comes a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the end of all things"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
255 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Steampunk, the retro-futuristic cultural movement, has become a substantial and permanent genre in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. A large part of its appeal is that, at its core, Steampunk is about doing it yourself: building on the past while also innovating and creating something original. VanderMeer's latest book offers practical and inspirational guidance for readers to find their individual path into this realm. Including sections...
6) Borne: #1
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. 'Yes, you are a person, ' Rachel tells him. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.' In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly, and broke free....
7) Acceptance
Author
Publisher
MCD, Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiii, 343 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed in on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they fail, the...
8) Absolution
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xi, 441 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A continued exploration of the mysterious Area X by the scientists and voyagers that VanderMeer introduced ten years ago in the original volumes"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against a ruthless corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. Jeff...
11) Authority: #2
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major movie deal had been struck. Just months later, Authority,...
12) Dead Astronauts
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own.
Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the
...13) Annihilation
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
14) Borne
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company―a biotech firm now derelict―and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick, who deals his own homegrown psychoactive biotech.
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...17) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.