num_pages: 345
description: An 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 &amp; 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.
language: English
title: Shriek: An Afterword
titlecomplete: Shriek: An Afterword
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Weird Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, New Weird, Steampunk
ratings_count: 2418
series: Ambergris
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel
publisher: Tor Books