Leviathan

Leviathan #3

by Jeff Vandermeer (Editor), Forrest Aguirre (Editor), Michael Moorcock (Contributor)

Leviathan Three is the third volume in the World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Award finalist Ministry of Whimsy�s Leviathan series.

Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories, Anthologies, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction

484 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

NYT bestselling writer Jeff VanderMeer has been called “the weird Thoreau” by the New Yorker for his engagement with ecological issues. His most recent novel, the national bestseller Borne, received wide-spread critical acclaim and his prior novels include the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance). Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, has been translated into 35 languages, and was made into a film from Paramount Pictures directed by Alex Garland. His nonfiction has appeared in New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and the Washington Post. He has coedited several iconic anthologies with his wife, the Hugo Award winning editor. Other titles include Wonderbook, the world’s first fully illustrated creative writing guide. VanderMeer served as the 2016-2017 Trias Writer in Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He has spoken at the Guggenheim, the Library of Congress, and the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination.

VanderMeer was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps. This experience, and the resulting trip back to the United States through Asia, Africa, and Europe, deeply influenced him.

Jeff is married to Ann VanderMeer, who is currently an acquiring editor at Tor.com and has won the Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award for her editing of magazines and anthologies. They live in Tallahassee, Florida, with two cats and thousands of books.

Reviews

[Karl · Rating 5 out of 5]

This it the trade paperback edition (and only edition, as far as I know) of this book.

The book won a number of awards and should be a must read for anyone who enjoys great writing.

This copy is signed by Jeff VanDer Meer who co-edited with Forrest Aguirre.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

didn't read all the stories in here, just the ones that grabbed me on the first page. Michael Cisco's "The Genius of Assasins" is one of the best things I've ever read, sickeningly violent and dazzlingly beautiful at the same time. The Stephen Thomas story (can't remember the title) a decadent fantasy vignette, almost a painting rather than a story. Zoran Zivkovic's "Library" series was very clever, playful.

[Forrest · Rating 5 out of 5]

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My friend, Stepan Chapman, passed away on January 27th, 2014. I share my thoughts, and my sorrow, here.

[Brent Hayward · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was actually fairly solid, but I don't think an anthology could get a much better rating unless I was 15 again (Dangerous Visions?) or had edited the thing myself. Jeff Vandermeer and company are a bit of a force in the world known by the folks who like to categorize as 'New Weird'; regardless what you call these stories, his tastes run fairly parallel to mine. Having said that, there were a few clunkers inside. On the other hand, the Brian Evenson alone is worth price of admission. Throw in Brendan Connell (read here for the first time- a wonderful writer), Michael Moorcock, and Carol Emshwiller, and you have a book worth picking up. A few points lost for the fact that pages are missing from one of the stories in some lame printing error.

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another wonderful compilation by Jeff VanderMeer (and Forrest Aguirre). Definitely check out Zoran Zivkovic's "The Library", Brian Stablefords "The Face of an Angel" (where I first learned about comprachicos, and had to watch the film "The Man Who Smiles" after I read this short story). Many other wonderful stories - too many to mention!

[Sara]

The unversial launguge of silince by forest agurri
y want retian then gave me new heart
i have the to gave but now nothing
then goodby
i see more gdnight
we satsfay by lost
but the love didnt care
the life beutiful just live that day by day
why we hiden after badly war
after unundirstand the life
we return to meet
at crapy cover
to whit coler like my heart
to come to trap
at war of pain
i learn from y
i cant blam any
its sky move
and we count the momen
and at the end we meet again

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved Zoran Živković's Library pieces, but all in all a very mixed bag.

Stepan Chapman's story was imaginative, but I found the 'it's all a dream' aspect a bit disappointing.

Michael Cisco's story was just plain creepy, it made me actually feel uncomfortable (which some people might like in horror, but I did not really enjoy it).

Most of the other stories left less of an impression on me.

[Dan Schuna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hit or miss. But the hits don't make the misses worth it.