This book would have been decidedly less impressive if i hadn't read the whole Ambergis Cycle.

If anyone tells you it's fine to read Finch if you haven't read the other 2 books set in Ambergris, don't believe them, they most likely haven't read both of the other books and don't understand how essential they are for a complete understanding of Finch They live in Tallahassee, Florida, with two cats and thousands of books. Jeff is married to Ann VanderMeer, who is currently an acquiring editor at Tor.com and has won the Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award for her editing of magazines and anthologies. This experience, and the resulting trip back to the United States through Asia, Africa, and Europe, deeply influenced him. VanderMeer was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps.

He has spoken at the Guggenheim, the Library of Congress, and the Arthur C. VanderMeer served as the 2016-2017 Trias Writer in Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Other titles include Wonderbook, the world’s first fully illustrated creative writing guide. He has coedited several iconic anthologies with his wife, the Hugo Award winning editor. His nonfiction has appeared in New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and the Washington Post. Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, has been translated into 35 languages, and was made into a film from Paramount Pictures directed by Alex Garland. His most recent novel, the national bestseller Borne, received wide-spread critical acclaim and his prior novels include the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance). NYT bestselling writer Jeff VanderMeer has been called “the weird Thoreau” by the New Yorker for his engagement with ecological issues.

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