Jeff VanderMeer
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Oct 27, 2026
Scott VerticalHOST
Um, I wrote a list out here.
Scott VerticalHOST
Like the Jeff Vandermeer writes Annihilation.
Scott VerticalHOST
The Southern Reach.
Scott VerticalHOST
He calls them the Southern Reach books.
AustinHOST
annihilation annihilation by jeff
RichardHOST
vandermeer by jeff vandermeer great example of a character who Tells themselves and the audience that they're far more cold, logical, they're not super feeling, but really they...
RichardHOST
They really are.
RichardHOST
And also with Blindsight, in a similar vein, that think they're cold, calculating, and there's actually a hidden emotion that even they are not aware of.
QuinnHOST
As always, thank you guys so much for watching and I hope to continue making content for years into the future.
QuinnHOST
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer is one of my favorite science fiction books to come out in the last 10 years.
QuinnHOST
It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Lovecraftian horror, and this particular book is one of the best modern examples that I can locate.
QuinnHOST
Now, you might have seen the 2018 adaptation of this book of the same title.
Elisha ZepedaGUEST
I'm trying to think.
Elisha ZepedaGUEST
I really love the new... annihilation uh series the jeff vandermeer um i forget who did it i want to say rodrigo corral could have been someone else though but it's just like this when you see it in person too it's like this holographic foil mixed with these weird like nature collages um feels appropriate love Yeah.
Elisha ZepedaGUEST
Yeah.
Elisha ZepedaGUEST
I've never read
AishaHOST
my god that makes so much sense
RayHOST
Yeah, what do you got? Stone Butch Blues, Disco Elysium, Harrow the Ninth, Roger Zelazny, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, Octavia Butler, of course, Princess Bride, Count of Monte Cristo.
RayHOST
All the stuff that the grandpa in Princess Bride is listing off, like revenge, torture, true love.
RayHOST
That's what I had in mind here.
Gillian DanielsGUEST
Like, I just read Roadside Picnic, which became a movie, Stalker, which is a story about being in a strange place where strange things are happening, and your, your body and your brain are shifting around.
Gillian DanielsGUEST
Essentially, Jeff VanderMeer and, uh, the Area X series, like, is a great example of this.
Mur LaffertyHOST
Mm-hmm.
Gillian DanielsGUEST
I wanna deal more in s- at some point with monsters that you cannot pin down easily because they are where you are.
Jamie FlanaganGUEST
One of which was an adaptation, uh, of the, a kind of a Brides of Dracula origin story w- through a feminist lens.
Jamie FlanaganGUEST
And then another was [laughs] an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's Venice Underground, which I didn't have the rights for at the time and should not have been adapting, but I loved that novel so much.
Jamie FlanaganGUEST
It... and it was inspiring to me, and I never thought it would go anywhere.
Jamie FlanaganGUEST
Then I was like, "Sure, I'll do it anyway." So I finished, uh, a pilot of that Brides of Dracula story, and I finished a feature adaptation of Venice Underground, and I sent both to Mike and his producing partner.
Jamie FlanaganGUEST
Uh, we sold the pilot to Netflix, uh, though the series didn't ultimately get made.
Jamie FlanaganGUEST
It got shelved.
Jamie FlanaganGUEST
And we ran to Jeff VanderMeer and begged shopping rights for Venice Underground, and took that around town.
Jamie FlanaganGUEST
Couldn't sell it, but we gave it our, our best try.
HampterceroPANELIST
well, oh, it's a fiction book.
HampterceroPANELIST
It's by Jeff Vandermeer.
HampterceroPANELIST
Heavy plug.
HampterceroPANELIST
Great series.
speaker_3HOST
And he anchors that claim with a deeply personal example.
speaker_3HOST
He points to Jeff Vandermeer's novel, Annihilation.
speaker_3HOST
Oh,
speaker_2HOST
man.
26 MINS LATER
speaker_2HOST
We looked at how the genre was fully realized in the minds of Mary Shelley and H.G. Wells before the movie camera was even a functional concept.
speaker_3HOST
Right.
speaker_2HOST
We dissected how reading Jeff Vandermeer physically rewires your brain to see alien weirdness in a mundane fern, forcing you to co-create the world rather than just passively absorb CGI.
speaker_3HOST
And we broke down the mechanics of adaptation, how the heavy internal dread of Tarkovsky's Stalker demands an entirely different cinematic language than the kinetic, math-driven optimism of Andy Weir's The Martian.
speaker_2HOST
This is where the genre gets dirt under its fingernails.
speaker_2HOST
And the perfect entry point, according to the source, is the book ranked at number 10, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, published in 2014.
speaker_1HOST
VanderMeer is described in the text as a central hugely defining figure in the modern tradition of the subgenre.
speaker_1HOST
Annihilation is the first book in his Southern Reach trilogy.
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