By turns sensuous and terrifying, these four linked novellas will draw you into VanderMeer’s vividly imagined worlds.
In the city of 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.
Ambergris is a cruelly beautiful metropolis – a haven for artists and thieves, for composers and murderers. And once there, anything can happen.
This collection includes the World Fantasy Award winning novella, The Transformation of Martin Lake.
‘Somewhere at the intersection of pulp and
surrealism, drawing on the very best of both traditions,
is Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris’
China Miéville
‘Beautifully written, virtually hallucinatory work . . .
enormously rewarding’
Publishers Weekly
‘VanderMeer keeps going deeper, and finding
new forms of gold’
Locus