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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1h

I have now also signed all or almost all copies at the Powell's at Beaverton and the main Burnside, even though they may not be labeled as autographed yet. If you are wanting one!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for your service. It will not go unrewarded. But I will also requisition a Borne for the monkey.

southern reach reddit with Borne UK bear jaws cover and text:

"Hope this is good, had to fight a monkey for it."

"Picked this up today in Gibraltar for something to read and had to fight a macaque for it because he thought it was food."

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

At the Powell's Hawthorne location in Portland, I signed every one of my books, in spec fic and on their bestseller lists. Everything of mine in the store, including a Steampunk Bible. They may not all have an autograph sticker until later today, but they are autographed, if yer looking.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19h

A year until Abdication. A blink of an eye.

In twenty-seven minutes, you will lose the ability to breathe without screaming in that space. In twenty-seven minutes, you will lose your whole team to the evaporating blast around the tidal pool where Ghost Bird and Control disappear. In twenty-nine minutes, you will stand at the edge of the hole, screaming, and what is still down there will know the measure of you and transform you. The afterglow and the beatific spray and this sense that Ghost Bird still existed there, off to the side, so he couldn’t see her, observing him. This world, that world. You’re drifting between.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19h

Just discovered Protomartyr. Like them a lot! Great new album Usona, but moved on also to Formal Growth in the Desert and others.

deracinated bald eagle against bluish background

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Artist Jeremy Zerfoss and I are working on a long story that takes the form of old-school video game still shots with A thru D decision points for the player and chatroom stuff below that advances the story as well. It's kind of liberating to be creating just the best screens of a video game.

pixelated blue hooded monster with red eyes spews red electricity from fang-laden mouth with a cosmos of black and tiny points of pixelated multi-colored light all around.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

um supposed to look like this lolll wtf bluesky how did that even happen lol

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

well... this is the most complicated portland halloween decoration @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social and i have seen...

several dolls and doll heads posed around a guillotine

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Beanpole (2019) is set in post WW2 Leningrad. It is beautifully shot and acted and utterly devastating. Iya and Masha, veterans of the war, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuid their lives.

orange red wall with clock with doctor and nurse in medical garb of the era.

Beanpole, played Viktoria Alekseevna Miroshnichenko, against green and red wallpaper backdrop.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

your moment of calm with our time share dawg Monrovia the Duchess of Brindle....

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cannot wait to see the new Nathan Fielder doc.

Holmes and Fielder with H saying can I show you a strange room Whitby and Fielder saying I am a strange room.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Some current reads and re-reads. A few I dip into from time to time.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My fourth Portland area event in five days, this time a reading alongside some great writers over at Brujos. See you there!

Sunday, October 11th
Brujos Brewing
(2377 NW Wilson St, Portland, OR 97210)

Weird Fiction Night
featuring readings by:

Jeff Vandermeer
Wendy Wagner
Keith Rosson
Jemiah Jefferson
Nathan Carson

5pm-8:30. 21+. Free.

Poster art by Sant V. Schreiber ( no Ai! <3 )

Thanks to Jason Walton for the invitation.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hillsboro Library tonight! On the west side here in Portland. Feeling adventurous? See you there!

Library Foundation of Hillsboro
An Evening with Author JEFF VANDERMEER

Our 2026 Author Event features Jeff VanderMeer, an award-winning, NYT-bestselling Science Fiction author whose works include the Southern Reach series and Hummingbird Salamander.
Saturday, October 10

7 - 8:30pm

Brookwood Library, Hillsboro
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
Proceeds from the event benefit The Hillsboro Public Library

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fifth Halloween rec because you are ravenous book cannibals is Dark Matter by Aase Berg. A truly visceral and transcendent collection translated by Johannes Göransson that's like Scott Walker's Tilt album in poetry form. Although totally unique and beautiful and unsettling.

red dots on black with title and author name obscured

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fourth Halloween rec since you ghouls are greedy for book flesh: Michel Bernanos' The Other Side of the Mountain. A truly disturbing voyage gives way to landfall in a harrowing, haunting, and horrific place. A direct influence on my novel Annihilation and also available in The Weird antho I coedited

michel bernanos
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN
sphere science fiction

a red montage of creepy lamenting bodies in the shadow of a mountain

quotes on back

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Third Halloween book rec since you haints are haunting me for titles: Saskia Nislow's surreal, very tactile and disturbing ritualistic body horror novel Root Rot.

ROOT ROT

Various plants and fungi in red silhouette against black background with human shape blood vessels, lymph nodes etc in middle

SASKIA NISLOW

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Second Halloween rec, since you weirdlings are restless, is Flicker by Theodore Roszak. The ultimate in film horror. Sophisticated, dark, original. Go in knowing as little as possible. And try to find a copy without a stupid cover. Most covers for this book are boring, alas.

strip of film in warhol colors down side, white backdrop, Flicker title in red, Theodore Roszak in black plus a Brett Eason Ellis blurb.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Very much looking forward to reading this advance copy of @usmantm.bsky.social's first novel! He's an excellent writer.

A Dark and Narrow House
Usman T. Malik

text in green against black with red house in middle if the cover.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Around Portland, showing Johannes Helden around, a really interesting Swedish multimedia environmental artist who now kinda loves the McMenamins vibe. Plus the urban walks and all the fruit trees and gardens. Etc et al.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Highly recommend the Australian indigenous art exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. portlandartmuseum.org/event/the-st...

three pieces in shape similar to skateboards Wingu Tinaima Pitjantjatjara, about 1917-2010 Minyma Tjuta (Seven Sisters), 2006 Irrunytju, Western Australia
Acrylic on canvas
Purchased with funds donated by Supporters and Patrons of Indigenous Art, 2006

Kunmanera (Patju) Presley Pitjantjatjara, 1945-2025
Markurapiti. 2015 Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia

Markurapiti offers a bird's-eye view of a sacred underground water source on Kunmanara (Patju) Presley's Ancestral land in the Great Victoria Desert.

abstraction of red and white and orange squares with very minute detail almost like filigree, apologies did not get the artist name

Betty Muffler Pitjantjatjara/Yankunyjatjara, born 1944
Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country), 2022
Acrylic on canvas

white circles and other shapes with faded other colors ghosting through

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Really, the coyotes seem to really like golf.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Writer and multimedia artist Johannes Heldén, visiting Portland house guest, hits a great ball at the Rose City Golf Course, *watched by a coyote* (upper left). As the guy nice enough to let him take a shot said, "You're representing Sweden, so make it good."

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Opossum been visiting. A lot of windfall fruit for this old soul.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Annihilation always makes Halloween lists, so I thought I'd do a thread of creepy reads. Starting today with a flat-out modern masterpiece, Max Lury's No Ghosts. Thoroughly contemporary and disturbing grounded in deep characterization, and, in part, outdoing Back Rooms while also its own thing. 1

No Ghosts in lower left, Max Lury in lower right. White hand reaching down, two eye holes in the wrist.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

more about the theo ellsworth collab you get free with your ticket to the white oak books event oct 7

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

maybe the best shot i took on the coast this time, although it still doesn't quite capture the reality of the beauty

blue cloud sly band of mist hills reflected water

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

some photos from that extraordinary stretch of bob straub state patk

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thrilled to share the cover art for "From An Antique Land," a new short story @reactorsff.bsky.social will publish on November 18! Art by Jon Juarez, editor @annvandermeer.bsky.social

red overhanging rock and blue ruins below.

From an Antique Land

by Jeff VanderMeer

Illustrated by Jon Juarez

Edited by Ann VanderMeer

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

your moment of haunted forest, bob straub state park.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hiked the Nestucca National Wildlife Refuge, Bob Straub State Park, and Sitka Sedge State Natural Area today for a total of 13 miles. All three glorious and amazing and highly recommended. Thanks to @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social for some of the recs.

beach with reeds and dunes and mud flats

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The most preternatural fungi I saw today on the Oregon Coast.

i white with gray my eyeball black stares back on bed of moss all green

my face all orange and laid bare chewed by some left to rot away orange

stufous dufous shelf humungous orange black and gray magicians hat upon a tree

i was round once but soon was petals bite by bite so turned to flower gray and white

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