Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Author at Gizmodo

Adam Tredowski’s Organic Rust—SF That’s Falling Apart

An ethereal metal steampunk fish and a rusting steamboat-influenced factory structure suspended above an alien world are just two examples of Polish artist Adam Tredowski’s texture-rich approaches to science fiction. The somewhat mysterious 33-year-old currently lives in England and has won many online awards for his work. There’s a satisfyingly organic feel to Tredowski’s work,…

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Drool Over Our Alien and Predator Centerfolds, and Win Free Books!

Regardless of your preference for the drooly one or the clicky one, the Predator and Aliens franchises have entered the pop culture hall of fame. They’ve get the creep-out factor, the scare, and SF thrills from glimpses of the Predator home world and insight into Alien queen psychology. Both universes continue to expand through comics…

Books & Comics Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Oct 31

From Rawhead Rex to Zeppelins and Back with SF Artist Les Edwards

The career of Les Edwards, otherwise known as “Edward Miller,” has taken an interesting path through horror to SF/F through the medium of “the New Weird.” Edwards already had a considerable body of work behind him in the 1980s and 1990s, including posters for movies like Nightbreed and The Thing, illustrations for the Clive Barker…

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Frank Wu: Kinetic, Surreal Fun

Welcome back to Jewels of Apator, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. Three-time Hugo Award winner Frank Wu isn’t much interested in boring old reality — that’s clear from his kinetic, psychedelically surreal artwork, which uses bold, sometimes delightfully lurid, color choices and an aggressive approach to subject…

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Aaron Jasinski: Retro SF Meets the Future

Welcome back to Jewels of Apator, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. Aaron Jasinski is a great example of the next generation of creators, slipping easily from song writing and production, including game work for clients including Microsoft and Oberon, to art and illustration. In this new era…

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Bonni Reid’s Retro-Tech Surrealism

Welcome back to Jewels of Apator, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. Bonni Reid often displays an uncanny meshing of the real and the surreal in her artwork-it’s as if she’s recording something odd or disturbing that’s just happened in her backyard. Some of her strangest work takes…

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The Uncanny Clockwork of Fantastic Contraption

Welcome back to The Jewels of Apator, a biweekly column from Ann & Jeff VanderMeer about the intersection between art and the fantastic. In La Jolla, California, a very unusual art exhibit called Fantastic Contraption has been on display most of the summer. The best way to think of the aesthetic impulse behind this exhibit…

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Bob Eggleton: The Texture of Monsters

Welcome back to Jewels of Apator, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s biweekly column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. Bob Eggleton has created so many book covers, interior art, monster art, and miscellaneous projects that it’s hard to keep track of his total output. And that’s not even including film work for Jimmy Neutron…

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Greg Broadmore: Friend to Rayguns

Welcome to The Jewels of Apator, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s bimonthly column on the intersection of art and the fantastic. Self-described “dinosaur nerd” and “friend to robots” Greg Broadmore recently wrote and illustrated Dr. Grordborts Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory-a serious critical study of the excesses of British colonialism. Well, okay, we’re joking. There is a certain…

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Mike Mignola, Creator of Hellboy: Low-tech and Badass

Welcome back to Jewels of Apator, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s biweekly column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. It may be hard to understand now just how fresh and different Mike Mignola’s Hellboy was when the first installment, Seeds of Destruction, came out from Dark Horse Comics in 1994. Wise-cracking anti-heroes have always…

Books & Comics Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Jul 11

Tentacles and Cosmic SF: The Art of Lovecraft

Welcome back to The Jewels of Apator, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s column on the intersection of art and the fantastic. Tentacular horrors, unnamable evils, and quests to the edges of alien-landscapes-on-earth like Antarctica were just some of the beautifully bizarre features of H.P. Lovecraft’s weird fiction. Creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraft has had an…

Books & Comics Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Jun 27

Bruce Jensen’s Sekrit Cool

Welcome back to The Jewels of Apator, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. Bruce Jensen is an artist whose work you’ve probably seen more times than you can remember. Over seven seasons, his art montages formed the backdrop to hundreds of segments on the CBS show 60 Minutes…

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Trondheim and Sfar’s Cute Aliens Who Kill

Welcome back to The Jewels of Apator, a biweekly column on the intersection of science fiction and art by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. One of the best science fiction graphic novels from the past few years doesn’t use any words. It doesn’t even come from our world. Deliberately weathered and made to look like a…

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Ian Miller’s Geometrically-Exact Surrealism

Welcome to The Jewels of Aptor, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s biweekly column on art and the fantastic. Ian Miller would’ve been cool even if he hadn’t worked on Ralph Bakshi’s underrated movie Cool World. The UK native has produced a distinctive body of SF artwork over the last thirty years, sometimes pulling collage and photography…

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Stephan Martiniere: The Future Will Be Bio-Mechanical

Welcome to The Jewels of Aptor, a biweekly column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. Never heard of French artist Stephan Martiniere? Well, you’ve definitely heard of the projects he’s been involved with: Star Wars II and III, The Astronaut’s Wife, Red Planet, I, Robot, Virus, and several other SF movies. That’s in…

Movies Ann and Jeff VanderMeer May 2

Ben Templesmith Brings You Doctor Who and the Decapitated Corpse

Welcome to a new column about science fiction art by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer. Artist Ben Templesmith’s daring, horrific, and sometimes just plain perverse approach in graphic novels like 30 Days of Night and his solo creation Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse is influenced by the science-fantasy cosmos of H.P. Lovecraft’s Old Ones and the work of…

Books & Comics Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Apr 18

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Adam Tredowski’s Organic Rust—SF That’s Falling Apart

Drool Over Our Alien and Predator Centerfolds, and Win Free Books!

From Rawhead Rex to Zeppelins and Back with SF Artist Les Edwards

Frank Wu: Kinetic, Surreal Fun

Aaron Jasinski: Retro SF Meets the Future

Bonni Reid’s Retro-Tech Surrealism

The Uncanny Clockwork of Fantastic Contraption

Bob Eggleton: The Texture of Monsters

Greg Broadmore: Friend to Rayguns

Mike Mignola, Creator of Hellboy: Low-tech and Badass

Tentacles and Cosmic SF: The Art of Lovecraft

Bruce Jensen’s Sekrit Cool

Trondheim and Sfar’s Cute Aliens Who Kill

Ian Miller’s Geometrically-Exact Surrealism

Stephan Martiniere: The Future Will Be Bio-Mechanical

Ben Templesmith Brings You Doctor Who and the Decapitated Corpse

The First ‘Maul: Shadow Lord’ Reactions Are Most Solid

‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 3 Is Doing What You Hoped

Wearables Are Getting Very Messy

Trump Wants to Start Privatizing TSA in Latest Budget Proposal

Lost Warship From Battle of Copenhagen Found After 225 Years

These One-of-a-Kind Objects Are in the Wrong Museums

Two Songs We Really Wish Were the Anime Outros for ‘Steel Ball Run’

AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job

Utah Is Giving Dr. AI the Power to Renew Drug Prescriptions

Here’s the Perfect Excuse to See ‘Project Hail Mary’ Again

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

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DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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