'Monstrous Creatures' collection by Jeff Vandermeer free for limited time

[garygibsonsf]

The link is here. It's PDF only, mind, but I'm assuming that a PDF might look pretty good on a tablet (one more reason I guess for me to get one eventually).

From Jeff's own page:

"Guide Dog Books has kindly agreed to provide a free download of my Monstrous Creatures collection for this week only, to help us celebrate 12 Days of Monsters, the theme of the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held the end of this week. "

And here's the Table of Contents:

Introduction: Monstrous? Creatures?

Monstrous Thoughts

The Third Bear
The Language of Defeat
An Anvil Is Not an Artichoke
The Romantic Underground
Politics in Fantasy
The Triumph of the Good
The New Weird – “It’s Alive?”
Conversation #1: China Miéville and the Monsters

Appreciations of the Monstrous

Prague: City of Fantasy
Catherynne M. Valente’s The Labyrinth
Two Members of the Shadow Cabinet: Batchelor and McNaughton
Making Her Own Light: Caitlin R. Kiernan
Unsung Heroes of Science Fiction and Fantasy
My Additional Misadventures with Engelbrecht
Alasdair Gray and Lanark
My Love-Hate Relationship with Clark Ashton-Smith
Lovecraft Art: The Link Between Tentacles and Cosmic SF
Alfred Kubin and the Tortured Triumph of The Other Side
The “Black Books” of Derek Raymond
A Giant of Literature, J.G. Ballard
The Cosmology of Jeffrey Ford
Five Years of Sfar and Trondheim’s Dungeon Series
How to Raise and Keep an Imagination: Joseph Nigg and the Power of Fantasy
Authors in Praise of Beer
Conversation #2: Eaten by Bears – Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels

Interrogating Other People’s Monsters

Prague Reimagined: Michal Ajvaz’s The Other City
The Perils and Triumphs of Transformation: China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun
Two New Anthology Series, Two Views of Comics
Tove Jansson’s Moomin Comics
Bittersweet Fantasy: Kazu Kibuishi’s Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper
Dream Worlds: David B’s Nocturnal Conspiracies
Silence and Aversion: J. Robert Lennon’s Castle
Stairs to Nowhere: House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Future Past: Brian Francis Slattery’s Liberation
Not Good at Dying: The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen
Re-envisioning the West: Emma Bull’s Territory
Hollywood Punk: Steve Erickson’s Zeroville
Exchange Students Plot to Take Over America: Chuck Palahniuk’s Pygmy
Looking for Love: Alexander Theroux’s Laura Warholic, or The Sexual Intellectual
The Lost Girls of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
London’s Last Stand: Jonathan Barnes’ The Domino Men
The Newt Speaks Volumes: Jack O’Connell’s The Resurrectionist
Not Enough Bite: Victor Pelevin’s The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Hot Ice: Marcel Theroux’s Far North
Philosophy in Fiction’s Clothing: Neal Stephenson’s Anathem
The Books of the Decade
Conversation #3: The Monstrous Capybara of Austin, Texas

Personal Monsters

The Hannukah Bear
Fantasy and the Imagination
My Father’s Pipe
The Novella: A Personal Exploration
Two Essays on Hiking

[Dr. Drib]

Now obtained.

Thanks!



Don

[Staked]

Wow! That's a great deal. I purchased the trade paperback and it was a great read. Jeff VanderMeer always seems to have something interesting to say.

[jgaiser]

Got it.. Thanks.

[Gardenman]

Got one. Looks like a great read. Thanks

[piperclassique]

Great, thank you. And no need to register or give my card details. I like!