Jeff VanderMeer
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born
July 07, 1968
gender
male
place of birth
The United States
website
genre
Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
member since
May 2009
about this author
Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer is an American writer, editor and publisher. He was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps. This experience, and the resulting trip back to the United States through Asia, Africa, and Europe, deeply influenced him.
In 2003, VanderMeer married Ann Kennedy, then editor for the small Buzzcity Press and magazine the Silver Web. Ann VanderMeer is currently the editor of Weird Tales magazine, and a respected anthologist and publisher in her own right. The VanderMeers live in Tallahassee, Florida.
He is the author of the best-selling City of Saints and Madmen, set in his signature creation, the imaginary city ...more
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City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author), Michael Moorcock avg rating 4.02 — 352 ratings — published 2002 10 editions |
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Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.90 — 158 ratings — published 2003 8 editions |
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Steampunk by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author), Ann VanderMeer avg rating 3.52 — 166 ratings — published 2008 |
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Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.01 — 141 ratings — published 2006 6 editions |
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author) , Mark Roberts avg rating 3.60 — 94 ratings — published 2003 5 editions |
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The New Weird by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.54 — 81 ratings — published 2008 |
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Secret Life by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.53 — 36 ratings — published 2004 2 editions |
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Best American Fantasy by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.65 — 34 ratings — published 2007 |
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The Situation by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.11 — 18 ratings — published 2008 2 editions |
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Finch by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.55 — 11 ratings — published 2009 |
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Jeff VanderMeer on tour for the book "Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st Century Writer"
Author appearance, November 09, 2009 07:00PM
HUGO HOUSE FANTASTIC FICTION SALON , 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle, WA, The United States
BOOKWORK FOR A BOOKLIFE: Award-winning writer and editor Jeff VanderMeer shares...more
Author appearance, November 09, 2009 07:00PM
HUGO HOUSE FANTASTIC FICTION SALON , 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle, WA, The United States
BOOKWORK FOR A BOOKLIFE: Award-winning writer and editor Jeff VanderMeer shares...more
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Jeff VanderMeer on tour for the book "Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st Century Writer"
Author appearance, November 10, 2009 05:00PM
University of California (San Bernardino), 5500 University Parkway (English Department events room in the UH Buildi, San Bernardino, CA, The United States
Reading/Signing Finch (and Booklife), with Glen Hirshberg Part of a five-week t...more
Author appearance, November 10, 2009 05:00PM
University of California (San Bernardino), 5500 University Parkway (English Department events room in the UH Buildi, San Bernardino, CA, The United States
Reading/Signing Finch (and Booklife), with Glen Hirshberg Part of a five-week t...more
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Jeff VanderMeer on tour for the book "Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st Century Writer"
Author appearance, November 11, 2009 07:00PM
Booksoup, 8818 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, West Hollywood, CA, The United States
Reading/Signing Finch (and Booklife) Part of a five-week tour all across the co...more
Author appearance, November 11, 2009 07:00PM
Booksoup, 8818 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, West Hollywood, CA, The United States
Reading/Signing Finch (and Booklife) Part of a five-week tour all across the co...more
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"He stumbled, almost fell, and decided to sit down, with his back against the tunnel wall, his feet resting against the opposite wall. Roaring out of the morass of pity, terror, happiness, joy, sadness, elation that he had inherited - shooting forth from this void, the single sharp thought: She does not love me. It was almost more than he could take. But he was not the kind of person to fold, to crack, to be broken, and so instead, in those moments after the realization, he bent - and bent, and kept on bending beneath the pressure of this new and terrible knowledge. Soon he would bend into a totally new shape altogether. He welcomed that. He wanted that. Maybe the new thing he would become would no longer hurt, would no longer fear, would no longer look back down into the void and wonder what was left of him.
She did not love him. It made him laugh as he sat there -- great belly laughs that doubled him over in the dust, where he lay for a long moment, recovering. It was funny beyond bearing. He had fought through a dozen terrors all for love of her. And she did not love him. He felt like a character in a holovid - the jester, the clown, the fool."
— Jeff VanderMeer (Veniss Underground)
She did not love him. It made him laugh as he sat there -- great belly laughs that doubled him over in the dust, where he lay for a long moment, recovering. It was funny beyond bearing. He had fought through a dozen terrors all for love of her. And she did not love him. He felt like a character in a holovid - the jester, the clown, the fool."
— Jeff VanderMeer (Veniss Underground)
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