![]() The alleged conspirators, when contacted by Locus Online, refused to comment. ![]() ![]() The same collaborators were also responsible for the various articles, essays, reviews, and online postings and correspondence attributed to VanderMeer, according to records found in VanderMeer's rather, the actor Shriek's Tallahassee home. A weekend investigation conducted by Locus Online correspondent Frederick Madnock has revealed that the fiction published under the VanderMeer byline actually consisted of unpublished texts by Jorge Luis Borges, loosely translated, adapted, and expanded by Alasdair Gray and edited by a consortium of conspirators including Michael Moorcock, Zoran Zivkovic, Gabe Chouinard, M. One thing is certain: the deceased was not "Jeff VanderMeer" at all but rather an otherwise unemployed actor named Duncan Shriek. Tallahassee Police are still investigating how the victim wound up in the squids' water tank. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, April 1, 2003: Jeff VanderMeer, putative author of the acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen and founder of the Ministry of Whimsy Press, died of a freak accident in a squid tank Friday night at the Tallahassee Florida Aquarium but subsequent investigation has revealed a massive hoax perpetrated upon the SF/F community.
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