Ambergris, Jeff VanderMeer
Ambergris, Jeff VanderMeer
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Ambergris

Author: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Bronson Pinchot, Oliver Wyman

Unabridged: 43 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy.Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris trilogy. 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.

About Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple anthologies. His recent books have made the year’s best books lists of Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Amazon.com.

About Cassandra Campbell

Cassandra Campbell has recorded over one hundred audiobooks and directed many more. She has received eight Earphone Awards and has been nominated for an Audie Award. As an actress and director, she has worked off Broadway and in regional theaters across the country, as well as doing voice work on numerous commercials and films.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot is an experienced narrator and actor who has appeared in multiple films and television shows. His film and television credits include Risky Business, Beverly Hills Cop, True Romance, and Perfect Strangers. A lover of Greek Revival architecture and soft shell crab, he currently resides in Manhattan.

About Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman, a native New Yorker, has appeared on stage as well as in film, and television. He is one of the founders of New York City's Collective Unconscious theater, and his performances include the award-winning “reality play” Charlie Victor Romeo and A.R. McElhinney's cult classic film A Chronicle of Corpses. He also lent his voice to several episodes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Oliver's work as a narrator extends to over 150 audiobooks and has won many him awards, including Audie awards for his reading of Lance Armstrong's autobiography, It's Not About the Bike, and Thomas L. Friedman's The World is Flat. He also read James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Tim Dorsey's Atomic Lobster, and David Weber's By Schism Rent Asunder. Oliver has won five Audie Awards from the Audio Publisher's Association, fourteen Earphone Awards from AudioFile Magazine, and two Listen Up Awards from Publisher's Weekly. Oliver was named a 2008 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture by AudioFile Magazine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zachary on December 19, 2020

Jeff VanderMeer is a genius. I can only make this pronouncement having now read the author’s Ambergris trilogy. Sure, I’ve read other works by the author, but nothing has been quite as mind-blowing as reading about the city of Ambergris and its sometimes mad, but mostly brilliant, inhabitants. What......more

Goodreads review by Aleksandra on February 20, 2021

Ambergris feels like a test run of all the fantastical ideas and themes later explored in the Southern Reach trilogy. The claustrophobic power of nature, man's uncanny ability to be inhuman to that which it doesn't understand, it's all here as a testament to Vandermeer's imagination. The stories are......more

Goodreads review by Ariel on October 11, 2021

I am a slow reader and this is a very long book, however the beautiful and horrifying world that is created is well worth the journey.......more