The New Weird - Ann VanderMeer [197]
STEPH SWAINSTON is the author of three novels, The Year ofOurWar, No Present Like Time, and The Modern World, the source of the excerpt in this volume. She studied archaeology at Cambridge and then worked as an archaeologist for three years, gaining an M.Phil. from the University of Wales. She has also researched herbal medicine and discovered traditional medicinal plants new to science. Swainston is a past finalist for the John W. Campbell Award and the British Fantasy Award.
JEFFREY THOMAS has set a series of novels and short stories in the milieu of his story Immolation, which include the novels Deadstock, Blue War, Health Agent, and Monstrocity, plus the collections Punk-town, Punktown: Shades of Grey and Punktown: Third Eye. In addition, Thomas's work has appeared in such anthologies as The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Year's Best Horror Stories, The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Leviathan 3 and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases. Thomas lives with his wife Hong in Massachusetts.
CONRAD WILLIAMS was born in 1969 and has been a published writer since 1988. He has sold around eighty short stories to a diverse range of publications and anthologies. He is the author of three novels, Head Injuries, London Revenant, and The Unblemished; three novellas, Nearly People, Game, and The Scalding Rooms; and a collection of short stories, Use Once Then Destroy. He is a past recipient of the Littlewood Arc Prize and the British Fantasy Award. He lives in Manchester with his wife, the writer Rhonda Carrier, their sons, Ethan and Ripley, and a monster Maine Coon cat called Reddie.
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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