#borne was actually my first vandermeer and i didnt realize astronauts and strange bird were adjacent to it

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Hi there! Welcome!!

Yeah, I can see what you mean about Dradin The Story functioning well as a world intro, I just had an eye roll of a time getting past Dradin The Character (I'm also biased toward adoring the Biologist in Southern Reach, so my expectations were perhaps too high haha). The fucked upness at the end is what saved it for me, too!

I've been chewing on this for a couple days now, and I think SHRIEK might be my favorite, too?? I really loved the parentheticals and one-sided sibling interaction, and the history and the art and the weird fringe takes, but FINCH (both the guy and the book) did grow on me also. Just. Gah. What a trilogy!!

Books of 2024: THE AMBERGRIS TRILOGY by Jeff VanderMeer.

Up next! This series is how I'm bridging my current writing/revision project with the one on deck for my personal nano. They're both Weird Stories, but the one I'm working on now is Weird (genre), like VanderMeer, and the one I'm planning for November is going to be Weird (fungus), also like VanderMeer. I hope to get Driscoll vibes AND some New Book vibes out of this!