# VanderMeer's City of Saints *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 May 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *11 May 2002, 05:09* Just a few words about Jeff VanderMeer's extraordinary book CITY OF SAINTS & MADMEN, now available in hardcover (Prime Books). The hardcover, a major expansion of last year's trade paperback version, is ideal reading for anyone who likes Wolfe--aside from the very high quality of the writing, there are enough unreliable narrators, books within books, disguised storylines, embedded stories, and metafictional tricks to satisfy 5HC and NEW SUN admirers. Plus Byzantine inspiration in common. --Nick Gevers. ---