5/7/2023 0 Comments The southern reach trilogy![]() ![]() In VanderMeer’s “Finch,” the mushroom people (“gray caps”) are people-shaped, and they can seem like character in an ordinary detective novel. Lovecraft is weird Kafka is probably the ultimate weird writer. ![]() Stephen King is tremendously imaginative, but H. ![]() Still, when you’re in the presence of the genuine, uncanny article, you know. A lot of fiction, moreover, merely pretends to it, invoking its atmosphere without being, in fact, all that weird. He writes in the genre-his 2009 novel “Finch” is a detective story, reminiscent of “Blade Runner,” set in a city divided between normal people and mushroom people-and he champions it: with his wife, the influential sci-fi and fantasy editor Ann VanderMeer, he’s edited the anthologies “ The Weird” and “ The New Weird.” It’s self-defeating, of course, to try and define weirdness (although VanderMeer has offered definitions). His name is Jeff VanderMeer, he’s from Tallahassee, Florida, and he’s the King of Weird Fiction. The three weirdest books I read last year were all by the same writer. Photo Illustration by Honjo Photograph by Russell G Sneddon / Writer Pictures / AP If Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy has a moral, it has to do with the dignity of the search for even partial truth. ![]()
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