Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leviathan 2 | 1998 | Jeff VanderMeer | Buy |
| 2 | Leviathan | 2002 | Jeff VanderMeer | Buy |
| 3 | Leviathan: Cities | 2004 | Jeff VanderMeer | Buy |
| 4 | Mapping The Beast | 2009 | Jeff VanderMeer | Buy |
The Leviathan series is a sequence of literary anthologies that Jeff VanderMeer edited or co-edited between 1998 and 2009. The anthologies collected experimental speculative fiction that blurred the lines between genre and literary writing. Leviathan 2 (1998) was an early effort, followed by the broader Leviathan (2002) and the themed Leviathan: Cities (2004).
Mapping The Beast (2009) was the final entry in the series. The Leviathan anthologies helped establish VanderMeer as a significant editor in the field and served as early venues for the kind of boundary-crossing fiction that would later be labeled New Weird.