Jeff VanderMeer
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.
I really hope my publishers are not doing this. Fairly sure they are not.
WIRED@wired.com · 21h agoMore than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
My mom did this illo for my first, self-published collection, The Book of Frog, back when I was a teenager.
𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒻 𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓎@andylikescats.bsky.social · yesterdayAnother from the archive. Business card for Giggles and Greensleeves.
Monrovia, the Duchess of Brindle, is in the house. We love our time share dog. Her other mom is about to have a baby. I predict we'll get more Monroe time after the little one arrives. Yay!
I prefer it when Nobel Prize for literature synchs up overwhelming talent with eccentricity or obscurity. Bob Dylan seemed a gratuitous choice. Murakami both doesn't need it and increasingly writes bad women characters. Anne Carson in the spotlight is great. I find her work oblique in a good way.
Siphonophore mimicry manifests solely when the egritted mobile phalange chemically reacts with a diodynetic egg cluster to preempt suppoforification. Depending on depth and ocean temperature at the time, of course.
Schmidt Ocean Institute@schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d ago🦑 Meet Planctoteuthis sp.! 🦑 According to #SamplingGap Co-chief sci Dr. Perez: “Images have finally enabled the description of this tail, but no one knows what it is used for. It looks like a siphonophore from a distance, and one hypothesis is that it could be used for siphonophore mimicry.”
Very much looking forward to reading this advance copy of @usmantm.bsky.social's first novel! He's an excellent writer.
just finished this after seeing this recommendation and my god. excellent. gorgeous. awful. moving. strangely funny. unforgettable. what a book. what a specific and unique book.
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6d agoAnnihilation always makes Halloween lists, so I thought I'd do a thread of creepy reads. Starting today with a flat-out modern masterpiece, Max Lury's No Ghosts. Thoroughly contemporary and disturbing grounded in deep characterization, and, in part, outdoing Back Rooms while also its own thing. 1
Really bad idea to mess around with John Picacio, one of the consumate professionals in the field and someone who always values community.
John Picacio@johnpicacio.bsky.social · 2d ago🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
PDX: "Night Voices" cstpdx.com/event/night-... Jeff Vandermeer & Theo Ellsworth in the Couv! whiteoakbooks.net/event/2026-1... "The Kiss", "Bad Education" hollywoodtheatre.org "Social Reckoning", "Other Mommy" www.fandango.com "Beware Boiúna" familycinemas.com/movies/bewar...
NIGHT VOICES (1995) Episodes 3 & 4 (Church of Film) | Clinton Street Theater
Known as the Italian Twin Peaks! The mutilated body of a student is found beneath Rome's oldest bridge, the Ponte Sublicio. Detective Morlisi is put on the case, which at first seems to be connected t...
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On October 7, come to the secret debrief on the Southern Reach at White Oak Books-- and get a free copy of my new collab with Theo Ellsworth, the Owls comic. For charity. Tickets here: whiteoakbooks.net/event/2026-1...
goooood morning it’s another cloudy gross one, cool but dry and gray - and we had a marvelously sociable loop, greeting several dogs we hadn’t seen in awhile and visiting a couple of neighbor ladies so yes, it’s true: Lucy Loved That Walk
Interesting project and article, with a casual mention if my novel Hummingbird Salamander at the end. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/a...
Are You Prepared for MoMA’s New Swamp? (Gift Article)
The Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen is driven by fascination with wetlands and a penchant for video games. His exhibition presents a mystical, esoteric world.
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This week! Behind the scenes of the Southern Reach coffee table book and more. They are also taking orders online from anywhere in the US for my books and I will happily personalize.
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2w agoOn October 7, come to the secret debrief on the Southern Reach at White Oak Books-- and get a free copy of my new collab with Theo Ellsworth, the Owls comic. For charity. Tickets here: whiteoakbooks.net/event/2026-1...
Annihilation always makes Halloween lists, so I thought I'd do a thread of creepy reads. Starting today with a flat-out modern masterpiece, Max Lury's No Ghosts. Thoroughly contemporary and disturbing grounded in deep characterization, and, in part, outdoing Back Rooms while also its own thing. 1
Around Portland, showing Johannes Helden around, a really interesting Swedish multimedia environmental artist who now kinda loves the McMenamins vibe. Plus the urban walks and all the fruit trees and gardens. Etc et al.
Highly recommend the Australian indigenous art exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. portlandartmuseum.org/event/the-st...
Voyager 1 is running on less memory than a single photo in your camera roll—69 KB. Its data is saved to an 8-track tape & software was developed when "the cloud" was in the sky. NASA sends commands and the old thing answers. And yet your brand new laptop freezes because you opened too many tabs.
Writer and multimedia artist Johannes Heldén, visiting Portland house guest, hits a great ball at the Rose City Golf Course, *watched by a coyote* (upper left). As the guy nice enough to let him take a shot said, "You're representing Sweden, so make it good."
maybe the best shot i took on the coast this time, although it still doesn't quite capture the reality of the beauty
Last week was prep and today is first day of shooting on Fog City. My bestie is in San Francisco for a couple of months on the grip crew. He told me some of the antique cars have been fitted with electric motors. Smart!
Thrilled to share the cover art for "From An Antique Land," a new short story @reactorsff.bsky.social will publish on November 18! Art by Jon Juarez, editor @annvandermeer.bsky.social
