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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2017

Copyright © 2017, 2018 VanderMeer Creative, Inc.

Published by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Cover design by Heike Schüssler

Cover photograph © plainpicture/Westend61/Martin Wimmer

Bestiary illustrations by Eric Nyquist

Jeff Vandermeer asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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Source ISBN: 9780008159177

Ebook Edition © March 2017 ISBN: 9780008159207

Version: 2018-02-26

Dedication

FOR ANN

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Part One

What I found …

Part Two

How it had …

Part Three

What they took …

Bestiary

Teems’s Bestiary

Acknowledgments

Keep Reading …

A Note About the Author

Also by Jeff VanderMeer

About the Publisher

PART ONE

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