The subversive elements turned into grimdark and the aesthetics turned into steampunk. Perdido Street Station created it, but City of Saints and Madmen, as well as KJ Bishop’s The Etched City, showed off even more of its possibilities. It’s because reading an Ambergris book means reading from the perspective of people who view this place as home, and enjoy its oddities as a citizen, rather than a tourist.Ĭity of Saints and Madmen, the first Ambergris book, was one of the original books of the New Weird subgenre.
This isn’t just because the setting is richly described, bursting with life. My ThoughtsĪmbergris is a wild, anarchic city unlike any other one in fantasy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris Trilogy.
About From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy.īefore Area X, there was Ambergris.
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