History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
Jeff VanderMeerBut what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?
Jeff VanderMeerThe map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
Jeff VanderMeerSo many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
Jeff VanderMeerI have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
Jeff VanderMeerThe city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.
Jeff VanderMeer