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She also has won a world fantasy award and a british fantasy award for coediting the weird. The first novel, annihilation, won the nebula award and shirley jackson award, and was made into a movie by paramount in 2018. In the big book of science fiction, literary power couple ann and jeff vandermeer transport readers from mars to mechanopolis, planet earth to parts unknown. This anthology, edited and annotated by ann and jeff vandermeer, contains sample works, mostly short stories, by those writers i ignored in my youth. One of my favorite anthologies of the past few years perhaps my absolute favorite is the big book of science fiction, edited by ann and jeff vandermeer. The big book of science fiction edited by ann and jeff vandermeer.
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