Shriek: An AfterwordAn epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris--previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen--Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies. Narrated with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions by ex-society figure Janice Shriek, this afterword presents a vivid gallery of characters and events, emphasizing the adventures of Janice's brother Duncan, a historian obsessed with a doomed love affair and a secret that may kill or transform him; a war between rival publishing houses that will change Ambergris forever; and the gray caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies who have been waiting underground for their chance to mold the future of the city. Part academic treatise, part tell-all biography, after this introduction to the Family Shriek, you'll never look at history in quite the same way again. |
Contents
Section 1 | 8 |
Section 2 | 13 |
Section 3 | 15 |
Section 4 | 43 |
Section 5 | 54 |
Section 6 | 74 |
Section 7 | 94 |
Section 8 | 112 |
Section 13 | 195 |
Section 14 | 197 |
Section 15 | 230 |
Section 16 | 252 |
Section 17 | 261 |
Section 18 | 298 |
Section 19 | 326 |
Section 20 | 338 |