Joe’s Reviews > City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris > Status Update

Not since I discovered Daniel Dennett last summer have I been so excited about a writer's work. Like Terry Pratchett on speed, VanderMeer has created a world more real than the real world (a dilemma he deals with in the final story in this anthology, 'The Strange Case of X'. My only concern is, like X, I too may forget which is more real, and succumb to Ambergris' ambiguous charms.)