This World Is Full of Monsters, Jeff VanderMeer
This World Is Full of Monsters, Jeff VanderMeer
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This World Is Full of Monsters
A Tor.com Original

Author: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrator: Vikas Adam

Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2019


Synopsis

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death and rebirth in a transformed Earth, in this Tor.com Original science fiction tale from Jeff VanderMeer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy.

About Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels (Borne, The Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts), and The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland. He speaks and writes frequently about issues relating to climate change as well as urban rewilding.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

But still the story-creature revealed Itself to me, until I understood that now It covered every surface, every space, and even though I thought I had been alone down in the basement among the rat-things and the other things I wanted very much to be rats and weren’t…I had not been alone. The story-c......more

Probably my least favorite of any work by VanderMeer I've read so far. I'm disappointed. The prose is gorgeous and poetic and I am sure that with a little digging a lot of metaphors and deep meanings could be unearth, but to be honest, I just don't feel inclined to try... This short story is the inner......more