But sometimes it is as if Proust intrudes, insensed and reminiscent. MICHAEL MOORCOCK "Examining VanderMeer one is reminded of the glories of Angkor and Anudhapura combined with the bustle and swagger of Captain Conrad's Indonesia, the adventurous intrigues of Byzantium and Venice, the brutal Spice Wars of the Dutch. His finely-honed language, laser-sharp, penetrates to the painful core of human experience." SOMTOW "VanderMeer is a master craftsman.
I recommend the journey to all travelers with a taste for the fantastic." -Terri Windling, Editor, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror TERRI WINDLING, Editor Year's Best Fantasy & Horror "Walking into Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris is like stepping inside of a surrealist painting by Leonora Carrington or Remedios Varo. Descriptive passages possess an originality and individual vitality for which it is hard to find parallel." - William Thompson, SF Site traditions both literary and social with an equal measure of playfulness. "Written with a richness of language and imagery uncommon for fantasy, and the equivalent of the best offered by contemporary literary stylists, the authors blends. " truly wonderful creation, the strange and ancient city of Ambergris pulls deeper and deeper into pause-producing insights or startlingly nasty and/or beautiful revelations." - Gahan Wilson, Realms of Fantasy "Ambergris is one of the great and unforgettable fantastic is a magnificent darkness." – Redsine ".enormously talented, possessing a painterly mastery of the Grotesque that makes his intensely-wrought dark fantasy an experience to be savored." - Nick Gevers, Locus Online, the Top 10 SF & Fantasy Short Story Writers Other fantasy authors may stripmine their invented worlds.for the last scrap of ore VanderMeer keeps going deeper, and finding new forms of gold." -Faren Miller, Locus. "City of Saints packs so much literary and emotional matter into the confines of one city, it defies both the standard category of 'collection' and the newer label 'story suite'. Here are comments on prior Ambergris titles by reviewers and authors:
John Coulthart, of Hawkwind and Lovecraft illustration fame, contributed several title pages.
Garry Nurrish served as chief designer on this ground-breaking project. This collection contains VanderMeer's Theodore Sturgeon Award finalist novella "Dradin, In Love" and his World Fantasy Award winning novella "Transformation of Martin Lake". A SUMPTUOUS FEAST OF TEXT AND ILLUSTRATION. THE COLLECTION THAT CHINA MIEVILLE CALLED "ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2001"-ENHANCED WITH 55,000 WORDS OF NEW MATERIAL and innovative artwork and design by seven artists and three designers.
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