"Make the most of the tapestry of tales and visions before you. It is a rare treasure, to be tasted with both relish and respect. It is the work of an original. It's what you've been looking for." So wrote Michael Moorcock about the real Jeff VanderMeer in his introduction to City of Saints and Madmen. The real VanderMeer, that is, as opposed to the Jeff VanderMeer that is the subject of the biographical sketch at the back of the book, an author with a background in, among other things, the city of Ambergris.
City of Saints and Madmen includes five novellas, listed below, where I posted a comprehensive review on each one. Additionally, this Picador edition includes many extensive entries within the Appendix, addressing many aspects of life in the city of Ambergris.
If you're like me, once you've gobbled up City of Saints and Madmen, you'll eagerly move on to the two other volumes within Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris cycle: Shriek: An Afterword and Finch. Anyway, here are my reviews for the novellas since each tale most certainly deserves its own write-up.
Dradin, In Love - Dradin, In Love by Jeff VanderMeer
The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris - The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of the City of Ambergris by Duncan Shriek by Jeff VanderMeer
The Transformation of Martin Lake - The Transformation of Martin Lake by Jeff VanderMeer
The Strange Case of X - The Strange Case of X by Jeff VanderMeer
The Cage - The Cage by Jeff VanderMeer
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