This experience, and the resulting trip back to the United States through Asia, Africa, and Europe, deeply influenced him. VanderMeer was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps. He has spoken at the Guggenheim, the Library of Congress, and the Arthur C. VanderMeer served as the 2016-2017 Trias Writer in Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Other titles include Wonderbook, the world’s first fully illustrated creative writing guide. He has coedited several iconic anthologies with his wife, the Hugo Award winning editor. His nonfiction has appeared in New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and the Washington Post. 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 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). NYT bestselling writer Jeff VanderMeer has been called “the weird Thoreau” by the New Yorker for his engagement with ecological issues. 'The Essential Sequential Steampunk: A Modest Survey of the Genre within the Comic Book Medium' by Bill Baker 'The Steam-Driven Time Machine: A Pop Culture Survey' by Rick Klaw 'Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast' by Neal Stephenson 'Minutes of the Last Meeting' by Stepan Chapman 'The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance' by Michael Chabon 'The Selene Gardening Society' by Molly Brown 'The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel' by Joe R. 'Benediction: Excerpt from The Warlord of the Air' by Michael Moorcock

'Introduction: The 19th Century Roots of Steampunk' by Jess Nevins The elegant allure of this popular new genre is represented in this rich collection by distinctively talented authors, including: Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern scientific advances-synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steam-driven robots, analog supercomputers, and ultramodern dirigibles.

Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of fantastical stories.

Steampunk by Jeff VanderMeer