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1) Annihilation
Author
Series
Southern Reach trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
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,...
5) Acceptance
Author
Series
Southern Reach trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown, navigating new terrain and new challenges, the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting.
Author
Series
Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
632 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfathers overstuffed mansiona veritable cabinet of curiositiesonce he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass...
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
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...
8) Area X
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
595 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the three volumes of the Southern Reach Trilogy, which were originally published as paperback originals in February, May, and September 2014. Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third. Area X--a remote and lush terrain--has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the...
9) Borne
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. 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...
12) Termush
Author
Publisher
FSG Originals/Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 105 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unnamed disaster has destroyed the world outside. Within the walls of the seaside resort called Termush, a select group of guests continues to life life undisturbed -- for now. As time passes, signs of the cataclysm begin to bleed into their gilded idyll. Before long, their peaceful days have turned into an agonizing wait for things to fall apart."--
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xviii, 876 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Return to the sumptuous, global feast of fantasy fiction with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's selection of modern masterpieces. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties--and beyond, into the twenty-first century--the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula...
14) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 234 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An inspiring tribute in text and photos to librarians and libraries in all fifty American states and Canada describes the diverse backgrounds and motivations of today's librarians and includes original essays by such contributors as Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, and Paula Poundstone.
