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Authors: Ann VanderMeer,Jeff Vandermeer

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BOOK: The New Weird
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Editors:

ANN VANDERMEER
has been a publisher for over twenty years, running her award-winning Buzzcity Press. Currently, she serves as the fiction editor for
Weird Tales
magazine. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with co-editor Jeff VanderMeer.

JEFF VANDERMEER
is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and author of such books as
Veniss Underground, City ofSaints & Madmen,
and
Shriek: An Afterword.
The VanderMeers are currently editing the anthologies
Best American Fantasy, Fast Ships/Black Sails, Steampunk, Last Drink Bird Head,
and
The Leonardo Variations,
a Clarion charity anthology, among others.

Table of Contents

introduction | The New Weird: "It's Alive?" | Jeff VanderMeer

STIMULI

The Luck in the Head |M. John Harrison

In the Hills, the Cities | Clive Barker

Crossing into Cambodia | Michael Moorcock

The Braining of Mother Lamprey | Simon D. Ings

The Neglected Garden | Kathe Koja

A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing | Thomas Ligotti

EVIDENCE

Jack | China Miéville

Immolation | Jeffrey Thomas

The Lizard of Ooze | Jay Lake

Watson's Boy | Brian Evenson

The Art of Dying | K. J. Bishop

At Reparata | Jeffrey Ford

Letters from Tainaron | Leena Krohn

The Ride of the Gabbleratchet | Steph Swainston

The Gutter Sees the Light That Never Shines | Alistair Rennie

SYMPOSIUM

New Weird Discussions: The Creation of a Term

"New Weird": I Think We're the Scene | Michael Cisco

Tracking Phantoms | Darja Malcolm-Clarke

Whose Words You Wear | K. J. Bishop

European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird | Martin Šust, Michael Haulica, Hannes Riffel, Jukka H

LABORATORY

Festival Lives | PREAMBLE: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

VIEW 1: Death in a Dirty Dhoti | Paul DiFilippo

VIEW 2: Cornflowers Beside the Unuttered | Cat Rambo

VIEW 3: All God's Chillun Got Wings | Sarah Monette

VIEW 4: Locust-Mind | Daniel Abraham

VIEW 5: Constable Chalch and the Ten Thousand Heroes | Felix Gilman

VIEW 6: Golden Lads All Must... | Hal Duncan

VIEW 7: Forfend the Heavens' Rending | Conrad Williams

Recommended Reading

Biographical Notes

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www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/2007/07/the-new-weird-a.html

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