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The New York
Times bestselling writer, editor, teacher, and publisher, Jeff VanderMeer has won the Rhysling Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA
Award, the World Fantasy Award three times, and most recently the
Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards for Annihilation
(2014), the first
volume of The Southern Reach trilogy.  Other acclaimed fiction
includes Borne (2017),
the rest of The Southern Reach trilogy (Authority
[2014] and Acceptance
[2014]), Finch
(2009) and Shriek:
An Afterword (2006).
Many of his shorter works have been collected in City of
Saints and Madmen
(2001), The Day
Dali Died (2003),
Secret Life (2004),
Secret Lives (2008),
The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories (2007;
with Cat Rambo), THE THIRD BEAR (2010), and The Compass of
his Bones and Other Stories
(2011). The film Annihilation, directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tessa Thompson and based on the VanderMeer novel, premiered in early 2018 to rave reviews.

VanderMeer co-edited
several groundbreaking and popular anthologies including The
Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric & Discredited
Diseases (2003; with Mark Roberts), THE NEW WEIRD (2008; with Ann
VanderMeer), STEAMPUNK (2008; with Ann VanderMeer), STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED (2010; with Ann VanderMeer), The Weird (with Ann
VanderMeer), The Time Traveler’s Almanac (2013; with Ann
VanderMeer), Sisters of the
Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015; with
Ann VanderMeer) and The Big Book of Science Fiction
(2016; with Ann VanderMeer). Also with his wife Ann, VanderMeer
produced THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS
(2010).

Among his numerous
nonfiction volumes are the acclaimed volumes BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER (2009), The Steampunk
Bible (2011; with S. J. Chambers), and Wonderbook: The
Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
(2013).

All of us at Tachyon wish the multi-faceted Jeff a squidastic birthday!

For more info about THE THIRD BEAR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Jacob McMurray

For more info about THE NEW WEIRD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about STEAMPUNK, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Dan Jones (Tinketbots)

Design by Ann Monn

For more info about THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart