City of Saints and Madmen
City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris.
Tähtifantasia award 2008.
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the
literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a
place unlike any you’ve ever visited – an invitation delivered by one of
our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.
City of
elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And
everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent
fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be
suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in
the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a
beheading – and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental
institution is convinced he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined
its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called
Chicago…
By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica
and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and
“eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzlebox where you
can lose – and find – yourself again.
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When Jeff VanderMeer writes, the world gets stranger—but in a way that feels unsettlingly familiar. Known for blurring the boundaries between nature and the surreal, his work isn’t content to just entertain—it transforms. With Annihilation, the first book in the Southern Reach Trilogy, VanderMeer didn’t just capture imaginations—he redefined what ecological science fiction could look like. The novel’s hypnotic blend of decay, transformation, and unknowable forces led to a bestselling series and a major film adaptation by Alex Garland. But for longtime readers, Annihilation was just the latest evolution of a voice that has always thrived in the liminal.
Ambergris Cycle
Ambergris Cycle consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
