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Ann VanderMeer

Born

in Kansas City, Missouri, The United States

March 06, 1957

Website

http://vandermeercreative.com

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

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Ann VanderMeer is an American publisher and editor, and the second female editor of the horror magazine Weird Tales. She is the founder of Buzzcity Press.

Her work as Fiction Editor of Weird Tales won a Hugo Award. Work from her press and related periodicals has won the British Fantasy Award, the International Rhysling Award, and appeared in several year's best anthologies. Ann was also the founder of The Silver Web magazine, a periodical devoted to experimental and avant-garde fantasy literature.

In 2009 "Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal" won a Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. Though some of its individual contributors have been honored with Hugos, Nebula Awards, and even one Pulitzer Prize, the magazine itself had n ...more

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Ann VanderMeer’s books

Average rating: 3.83 · 14,572 ratings · 2,094 reviews · 65 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories by Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), George R.R. Martin 4.27 avg rating — 2,409 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steampunk by Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.53 avg rating — 2,300 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology by Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 1,284 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Weird by Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jay Lake (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 1,313 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time Traveler's Almanac by Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 1,245 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Book of Science Fiction by Ann VanderMeer (editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kojo Laing (contributor) 4.15 avg rating — 781 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities by Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.59 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded (Steampunk, #2) by Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.65 avg rating — 732 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fast Ships, Black Sails by Ann VanderMeer (editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.51 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues by Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) 3.17 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Ann VanderMeer

Thackery T. Lambshead (2 books)
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Ann VanderMeer (Editor),

Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor)

3.65 avg rating — 1,546 ratings

The Time Traveller's Almanac (4 books)
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Ann VanderMeer (Editor)

3.48 avg rating — 211 ratings

Quotes by Ann VanderMeer (?)

“Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves you. That somebody has loved you, could love you. We all need to know that. Maybe it’s what we need most.”
― Ann VanderMeer, The Time Traveler's Almanac

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“There is no “makes sense” in the universal sense – that is to say, criticizing a time travel story because its rules do not line up with rules in the real world is akin to dismissing the Harry Potter books because the conductive properties of wood could never sustain the energy required for spell casting.”
― Ann VanderMeer, The Time Traveler's Almanac

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“I always grow poetic when I am lying to myself.”
― Ann VanderMeer, The Time Traveler's Almanac

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Which New Weird book would you like to discuss during March?
Our focus for March is "New-Weird" with focus on author Jeff Vandermeer. For our "main" discussion, we could either suss out the New Weird genre by having a look at the entries in Ann VanderMeer's anthology The New Weird, or we could read something by Jeff VanderMeer.

City of Saints and Madmen

20 votes, 62.5%

The New Weird

8 votes, 25.0%

Finch

3 votes, 9.4%

Shriek: An Afterword

1 vote, 3.1%

32 total votes

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