The New Weird - Ann VanderMeer [0]
The New Weird
Copyright © 2008 by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
This is a work of fiction. All events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Cover design by Ann Monn | cover image by Mike Libby of Insect Lab
Interior design & composition by John D. Berry
The text typeface is Kingfisher, designed by Jeremy Tankard
Tachyon Publications 1459 18th Street #139 San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 285-5615
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Series Editor: Jacob Weisman
ISBN 13: 978-1-892391-55-1 ISBN 10: 1-892391-55-4
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition: 2007
98 76543 21
Introduction: "The New Weird: 'It's Alive?' " © 2008 by Jeff VanderMeer. | "The Luck in the Head" © 1984 by M. John Harrison. Originally appeared in Viriconium Nights (Ace: New York). | "In the Hills, the Cities" © 1984 by Clive Barker. Originally appeared in Books of Blood, Volume 1 (Sphere: London). | "Crossing into Cambodia" © 1979 by Michael Moorcock. Originally appeared in Twenty Houses of the Zodiac, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (New English Library: London). | "The Braining of Mother Lamprey" © 1990 by Simon D. Ings. Originally appeared in Interzone 36, June 1990. | "The Neglected Garden" © 1991 by Kathe Koja. Originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1991. | "A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing" © 1997 by Thomas Ligotti. Originally appeared in In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land (Durtro: London). | "Jack" © 2005 by China Miéville. Originally appeared in Looking for Jake and Other Stories (Macmillan UK: London). Reprinted by permission of Pan Macmillan and Random House. | "Immolation" © 2000 by Jeffrey Thomas. Originally appeared in Punktown (The Ministry of Whimsy: Tallahassee). | "The Lizard of Ooze" © 2005 by Joseph E. Lake. Originally appeared in Flytrap number 4, May 2005. | "Watson's Boy" © 2000 by Brian Evenson. Originally appeared in Contagion and Other Stories (Wordcraft: La Grande, Oregon). | "The Art of Dying" © 1997 by K. J. Bishop. Originally appeared in Aurealis #19, October 1997, as by Kirsten Bishop. | "At Reparata" © 1999 by Jeffrey Ford. Originally appeared in Event Horizon, February 15, 1999. | "Letters from Tainaron" © 2004 by Leena Krohn. Originally appeared in Tainaron: Mailfrom Another City, edited by Juha Lindroos and Kathleen Martin (Prime: Rockville, Maryland). | "The Ride of the Gabbleratchet" © 2007 by Steph Swainston. First appeared in The Modern World (Gollancz: London). Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins and Victor Gollancz. | "The Gutter Sees the Light That Never Shines" © 2008 by Alistair Rennie. Previously unpublished. | "New Weird Discussions: The Creation of a Term" originally appeared on The Third Alternative message boards atwww.ttapress.com/forum/index.php; discussion currently archived atwww.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/200y/0y/the-new-weird-a.html. | " 'New Weird': I Think We're the Scene" © 2004 by Michael Cisco. Originally appeared on The Modern Word website: www.themodern-word.com/themodword.cfm. | "Tracking Phantoms" © 2008 by Darja Malcolm-Clarke. Previously unpublished. | "Whose Words You Wear" © 2008 by K. J. Bishop. Previously unpublished. | "Creating New Weird to Work for Us," © 2008 by Martin Sust. Previously unpublished. | "The New Weird Treachery," © 2008 by Michael Haulica. Previously unpublished. | "There Is No New Weird," © 2008 by Hannes Riffel. Previously unpublished. | "Blurring the Lines," © 2008 by Jukka Halme. Previously unpublished. | "The Uncleaned Kettle," © 2008 by Konrad Walewski. Previously unpublished. | "Festival Lives" © 2008 by Paul Di Filippo, Cat Rambo, Sarah Monette, Daniel Abraham, Felix Gilman, Hal Duncan, and Conrad Williams. Previously unpublished.
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