'Idiosyncratic fantasy... Classic noir... Best SF of the year.' THE TIMES
WASHINGTON POST Best Book of the Year
WALL STREET JOURNAL Book of the Year
BARNES AND NOBLE Best Book of the Year
Welcome to the New Weird. This novel's too cool to fit any one genre: think David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Scarlet Thomas' The End of Mr Y, Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts
'Finch is ... well, it's Farewell, My Lovely if Philip Marlowe worked for pod-people while snacking onAlice's Wonderland mushrooms. It's The Name of the Rose if Sean Connery's character was a conglomeration of self-aware spores instead of a mediaeval monk. It's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold if all the agents were also testing psychedelic drugs and hung out in a postapocalyptic Emerald Cityinstead of Eastern Europe. More importantly, Finch is a really good book - exciting, dark, suspenseful, and wonderfully weird.' - Tad Williams
I can't remember ever reading a book like Finch. Audacious... extravagant... macabre. I'm impressed - Stephen R Donaldson
Fungal noir. Steampunk delirium. Paranoid spy thriller . . . A clear signal, if one were ever needed, that VanderMeer remains one of modern fantasy's most original and fearless pioneers - Richard K Morgan
Wow, what a cool novel. Heavy with shadows and dark as sin detective fantasy... Hell I loved it. In fact, I'm a little jealous - Joe R Lansdale
Finch just blew me to hell and gone... Think Cormac McCarthy... with an amazing nod to Lovecraft and still that doesn't capture the spell this novel casts - Ken Bruen
Fans of the avant garde will appreciate VanderMeer's latest work. VanderMeer skillfully pairs horror motifs with dreamlike imagery - Wall Street Journal
One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year... If H.P. Lovecraft had collaborated with Raymond Chandler the result might have been something like this... a chilling, thrillingly bizarre original - The Times
