
If you haven't read City of Saints and Madmen, don't bother. The appendix includes some of my absolute favourites, and it's not like it reads like a novel anyway.Ĭity of Saints and Madmen paperback indexīottom line, if you're like me, only getting it for Shriek and Finch, getting the omnibus is a good idea. This is apparently on purpose, but it's a huge shame. However, there's a big issue that makes me disrecommend it to anyone new to the series: the whole appendix to City of Saints and Madmen, over half of what's in the paperback edition I read originally, is not included. 2) by Vandermeer, Jeff Paperback 8.39 6.29 List price: 18.00 Add to Cart Borne by Vandermeer, Jeff Paperback 7.79 5.84 List price: 15. When I finally got the book today, I was delighted - it's beautiful and far less unwieldy than I feared it would be. 3) by Vandermeer, Jeff Paperback 8.39 6.29 List price: 18.00 Add to Cart Shriek: An Afterword (The Ambergris Trilogy, Bk. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch.



I have wanted to read the other two books, Shriek and Finch as well, but they were out of print and impossible to get, so when I saw there'd be a new edition I gladly preordered. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris Trilogy. I'm a huge fan of City of Saints and Madmen.
