Author Jeff VanderMeer spent much of his childhood in Fiji while his parents were working for the Peace Corps. They instilled a sense of wonder in him from a very young age and he spent a lot of his youth being fascinated by the flora and fauna he found around him.
The books are sadly impossible to market. His later work found critical success with Annihilation, which could be pigeonholed as a thriller for marketing. Ambergris still sits in the background, mostly unread and avoided, which a real shame. You can classify it as weird fiction but that label will send away most of the readers who will truly love it, as you don't really expect to see a mushroom-world in literary canon. I'm fairly well-read and I was constantly amazed as Vandermeer showed me time and again things I never imagined in a book. His later work is more polished and marketable but this early trilogy arguably has more heart in it. I wonder if one day Ambergris will finally pick up steam and be recognized for what it is.
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"Some of the most interesting fantasist-fabulists writing today."--Los Angeles Times"A science-fiction symphony of strangeness....The Cabinet of Curiosities will give you a good jolt of wonder."--Gainesville TimesYou'll be astonished by what you'll find in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. Editors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have gathered together a spectacular array of exhibits, oddities, images, and stories by some of the most renowned and bestselling writers and artists in speculative and graphic fiction, including Ted Chiang, Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), China Mieville, and Michael Moorcock. A spectacularly illustrated anthology of Victorian steampunk devices and the stories behind them, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities is a boldly original, enthrallingly imaginative, and endlessly entertaining entry into a hidden world of weird science and unnatural nature that will appeal equally to fantasy lovers and graphic novel aficionados.
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For lovers of Steampunk, Dark Fantasy, and Eccentric Contraptions! After the death of Dr. Lambshead, an astonishing cabinet of curiosities was unearthed at his house. Many of these artifacts and wonders related to anecdotes and stories in the doctor's personal journals, or the adventures of his friends. We are now proud to present highlights from the doctor's cabinet, reconstructed not only through visual representations but also through exciting stories of intrigue and adventure. Rumors that Dr. Lambshead never existed are scurrilous and should be ignored!
Haunted by My Own Squid
There then occurred a blissful interlude where I could focus solely on my flailing career as a novelist, as the three Ambergris books came out from different publishers, and one during the recession of 2008-2009, sinking any chances for consistent sales. I could tell things were going swimmingly by how few squid sightings people sent anymore and was beginning to wonder if I should switch to writing poems about people staring at thistles and aimlessly wandering a hiking trail near my favorite lighthouse.
Pen, a professor of music and director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at the University of Kentucky, is certainly well placed to utilize the plethora of sources documenting Niles's life and work. He has been involved with this subject for some twenty years of his own life and his efforts have paid off mightily. He proves himself to be a scrupulous scholar, demonstrating a wonderful ability to craft a clearly written, interesting narrative out of a huge number of disparate manuscripts, publications, and other sources. And the University Press of Kentucky should be congratulated in producing a well-made, attractive volume with full scholarly apparatus and (mostly) excellent plates and illustrations.
Indeed, the issue of representing other cultures is something with which anthropology and ethnomusicology, as fields, have always struggled, and a more detailed case study of a figure like Niles would be very welcome. Niles's approach was not scientific but artistic, and the story of his most famous song, "I Wonder as I Wander," is a case in point. In one of his later field trips to North Carolina with photographer Doris Ulmann, Niles happened upon Annie Morgan, the young daughter of an itinerant preacher, singing a song, "the burden [End Page 765] [of which] had to do with wandering and wondering and the reasons for Christ's birth and death" (p. 150). The performance was a halting affair, with Niles throwing coins to the girl and her father egging her on to continue singing. In the end, Niles reports that he "went on paying for a single sentence of words and music for eight times" (p. 151), never fully recording the complete song. By the next morning the girl and her family were gone.
Babel by Gabriel Blackwell. I had the good fortune to edit The Collagist (now The Rupture) with Gabriel Blackwell for several years before I left the magazine, after which he stayed on as editor-in-chief and continued to put to good use his keen eye for innovative and surprising fiction. No wonder too, when his own work is so fresh and inventive and, as in his story \u201CA Field in Winter,\u201D often deeply uncanny. My guess is that this collection is unlike anything else you\u2019re reading right now. Don\u2019t miss it.
Vander Meer created a one-out jam by walking three batters. Reds manager Bill McKechnie visited the mound to calm Vander Meer. Frey said of that moment, "You wonder when in the world is he going to get the ball over the plate?"
The story is told through the field journal of The Biologist, but that felt kind of tenuous to me because of the inclusion of actual dialogue. Still, this guy writes quite well, so I was willing to be pulled along. And pulled along I was. The scenery and atmosphere are great. Right from the beginning, we know that something is going to go wrong, as surprises abound and tensions run high between the individual members of the team. The more the team explores and discovers, the more everything comes unraveled, as each team member, the history of these expeditions, and the strange and wonderful Area X itself all reveal their individual secrets. Even The Biologist, the POV from which the story is told, withholds information from we the readers for quite some time. And that annoyed me a little bit, but I was willing to swallow it for the duration of the book.
In 2014 TU Delft cultural professor Paulien Cornelisse led a Master Class: De wonderkamer (the wonder room). The completed installations on display in the wonder room reflect not only the diverse disciplines from which the twenty-six students in the master class come but also the different elements of life they decided to focus on. The wonder room will be on display in the TU Delft Library until July 7 2014.
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