Vandermeer
Proper noun
Meaning
Vandermeer (plural Vandermeers)
A surname from Dutch.
Examples
As a writer of fantasy, VanderMeer has always eschewed the more derivative aspects of world-building, preferring instead to employ speculative conceits as a means of stretching the envelope of the possible.
A collection in collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories, appeared in 2007.
And now at last, there's an English-language edition of their trippy book The Dead Mountaineer's Inn, translated by Josh Billings with an introduction by Jeff VanderMeer.
In a manner similar to H. G. Wells' in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), VanderMeer weaves together an otherworldly tale of the supernatural and the half-humanDelightfully, this page-turner is the first in a trilogy.”
Now, along with co-editor Mark Roberts, VanderMeer has produced one of his most original and sumptuously fabricated collections to date.
Try China Mieville, Peter S. Beagle, Jeff VanderMeer, Hal Duncan, Ray Bradbury, Cathrynne Valente, Iain Banks, etc. and you’ll have some more.