Amber
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Jeff VanderMeer:
Are you going to release suggested discussion questions for the Southern Reach Trilogy?
Jeff VanderMeer
Hi, Amber! You can find questions for all three books here. Although, of course, they're spoilery. http://www.readinggroupguides.com/rev...
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David
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Jeff VanderMeer:
When I got my book published, I was told that I couldn't publish another book for two years, for fear of cannibalizing my own sales. You're releasing three hardbacks in a year. Is this a new publishing idea--a reflection, say, of pressure from ebooks (where single authors sell many books a year)--or is it just a trilogy-specific marketing plan that isn't reacting to ebook realities at all? Why did they let you do it?
Sean
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Jeff VanderMeer:
Even though they are very different books, I felt like your books have a lot in common with "House of Leaves" (the whole Lovecraftian uncertainty, the focus on protagonists who aren't fully aware of the world they're interacting with) and I just wondered if "Leaves" happened to be a book that influenced your thinking or if it's just serendipitous reading on my part.
Ali Mcghee
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Jeff VanderMeer:
The collapse of the anthropocene is a theme in your works, but they also hold out potential for a transformed human agency. Grotesque shifts still leave behind a residue of the human. Annihilation is on this track with the biologist's contamination. Do these transformations relate to your sense of human (d)evolution? What is gained or lost by leaving behind individual consciousness for something more rhizomatic?
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