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Ambergris jeff vandermeer5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() However, it does bear pointing out that this is not a complete version of the novella collection. The books, which can be read individually, feel complete when brought together, like puzzle pieces that expose a larger whole.Ĭity of Saints and Madmen, in its lead-off position, is perhaps the most brilliant of the three books collected here. That world-building is what makes VanderMeer a genius. All in all, the novella collection City of Saints and Madmen (2001), and the novels Shriek: An Afterword (2006) and Finch (2009), are prime examples of world-building: making worlds seem complete and historical, and fully fleshed out. ![]() The Ambergris trilogy, which has been now collected in an omnibus edition containing all three works, came before the Borne duology and even the Southern Reach Trilogy. What makes this work even more startling is that it came early in VanderMeer’s career. Sure, I’ve read other works by the author, but nothing has been quite as mind-blowing as reading about the city of Ambergris and its sometimes mad, but mostly brilliant, inhabitants. I can only make this pronouncement having now read the author’s Ambergris trilogy. ![]()
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