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Also from this week's Wormwoodiana:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j4TeyCZU4bg/VPjRv7K-ctI/AAAAAAAAA2k/Bo6Jhqh2m_c/s1600/Ligotti.jpg
The striking cover by Serhiy Krykun

Thursday, March 5, 2015
Ligotti in Polish

Just a quick look here at the new translation of Thomas Ligotti's Teatro Grottesco into Polish from the publisher Okultura. Not only is there a new three-page Preface to the Polish Edition by Ligotti himself (translated by Mateusz Kopacz), but there is a fourteen page foreword by Wojciech Gunia and Slawomir Wielhorski and a very extensive Ligotti bibliography by Wielhorski.* Congratulations to all involved on this fine production!

*Note: Wielhorski also did an excellent interview with Ligotti that first appeared in Polish in 2012, and has now been collected in Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (2014), edited by Matt Cardin. Weilhorski's interview, with an extra bonus answer at the end, also appears at Matt Cardin's blog, The Teeming Brain. Click here to see it.
(See blog version for this and other links, also table of contents for Polish edition of the Ligotti)
http://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2015/03/ligotti-in-polish.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Wormwoodiana+%28Wormwoodiana%29

dow, Saturday, 7 March 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link

The second post was also by Douglas A. Anderson.

dow, Saturday, 7 March 2015 01:58 (nine years ago) link

So should I read Lord of Light?

Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link

idk I'm still waiting for your report on report on probability a

ledge, Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link

Ha. Think I gave it an 'A' upthread. Liked the fact that it was basically a Nouveau Roman but written in English, and that there was a sense of humour behind the poker-faced repetition- laughed out loud at the point when one the observers says something to the effect that "the report is too detailed!" Finally, thought the bit about the painting was a good way of tying it all together. Think I read that that was added later.

Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link

Btw, just returned a few days ago to the Aldiss best-of story collection, Man In His Time, which I still have to finish.

Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link

to keep the xgau flames going, someone has to read wife of xgau's dystopian novel and report back:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Only-Ones-Carola-Dibbell/dp/1937512274

scott seward, Saturday, 7 March 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link

Ha, was wondering about that.

Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 March 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link

New Datlow anth, The Doll Collection. As described on this blog, looks like good variety of variations on the theme (scary dollness), and since it's not a Martin-Dozois, prob not 1,000 pages with muddy Martin slog as finale (does incl. a couple of the better writers from M-D's usual crew, like Carrie Vaughn)(also got Joyce Carol Oates etc)http://www.thirteenoclock.com.au/the-doll-collection-ed-ellen-datlow-review-by-mario-guslandi/

dow, Sunday, 8 March 2015 04:16 (nine years ago) link

Used to read a lot of Karen Joy Fowler's stories in 80s-90s sf mags, and her 1991 full-length debut, Sarah Canary, might be about The Woman Who Fell To Earth, way back in a 19th Century Pacific Northwest backwoods Chinese railroad worker settlement. She's white, she doesn't talk, she's just passin' through and/or totally at home, none of which makes any sense. She has to be taken to a white settlement, and along the way she's a magnet for every other kind of misfit, which is most folks (and critters), when you get down to the available references. Chapters recalling good silent movie comedies and their influence on Beckett alternate with what seemed kinda lecture-y to me, but overall it worked a lot better than I expected.

2013's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselvesmakes an anomalous female the narrator, and though I'm really tired of first-person narratian, this also works (for the most part) better than expected. Mostly, she feels herself to be an anomaly, although she's learned to hide some of it, to play fairly well with others, after starting school in the valley of the uncanny, tagged by other kindergartners as a monkey girl, imperfectly mirroring human behavior, not quiiite getting it right. And this, she says, is because she was raised from infancy with a chimpanzee of the same age, whom she regards as her twin sister, her true mirror.
Her family is famous for this grand experiment, but can't be that, no, it's gotta be her own star weirdness that makes the other kids go speciesist on her; of course it doesn't help when she teaches them words like "estrus," and corrects them, like in pointing out that chimpanzees are apes, like us, they're not monkeys. So the kids infer that she would be okay with "ape girl," which does not help her acceptance-wise, and "an entire Sunday School class was taught against me" for the human-ape thing, she claims (the 70s in Bloomington, so maybe).

The lecture bits here are effectively deployed in context. For instance, the narrator, Rosemary, while pilled and drunk, drops science on the knucklehead boyfriend of Harlow, Rosemary's new monkey sister; Harlow wasn't raised that way, just has the monkey in her soul, as Steely Dan would say, but when they go swinging off into the trees together, tend to land in Collegetown jail.

The story begins in the middle, as I should have, but deals with the resurfacing trauma (once Rosemary gets away from home, from familiar shields) of having Fern, her chimpanzee twin, taken away in early childhood. Index cards from the history of science and of Rosemary's family get reshuffled, get their recombinant info re-figured in ways that add up---not too much time or space for meta-games here---but some readers get way different takes than I did (h'mm, I suppose Harlow *could* be a diversion; the animal liberation underground and alibis are part of the reshuffling, for sure).

Dr. Cooke, Rosemary and Fern's Dad, certainly seems like some profs I've known: he's equally dedicated to the principle of irrationality as prime mover in all primates, def. incl. Man, and to the rigors of science. The question of just what the hell he and his tribe were thinking/not-thinking when they brought it all back home, and actually "adopted" apes, is left a subject for further study, as Rosemary restlessly delves into the history of this mystery trend. Which I guess is over, right? The money got turned off, for these and other interspecies communications experiments (prob not enough CIA etc usefulness; Jon Ronson to thread).

Rosemary does mention one (only one) case that turned out relatively well: Washoe the chimp came into the care of Roger Fouts, the researcher who was the consultant for Greystoke, a movie which depicted ape behavior in a fascinating, seemingly plausible way, among the troop who raised Tarzan. (Although somehow, he has no prob with acting human either, it's not Tarzan In The Valley of the Uncanny.) Anyway, Fouts was the one who, back in the day, really got me trying to follow modern primate studies, especially communication experiments, but then the plug got pulled.

dow, Monday, 9 March 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link

got a Robert Reed book + Ted Chiang's "Stories of Your Life and Others" from the library - will start on those as soon as I finish re-reading Pale Fire, which is too fun to put down

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link

Unseaming by Mike Allen is pretty good if you like that kind of thing (Laird Barron, post-Lovecraft weirdness, etc). He's a better writer than Strantzas.

Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link

Mike Allen's novel Black Fire Concerto sounds cool too.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205562994736454&set=a.1341621942845.50920.1300096793&type=1&fref=nf&pnref=story

This happened a whole month ago but I hadn't heard about it. Melanie Tem passing away.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link

Wikipedia's down for the moment, and not seeing her in Science Fiction Encyclopedia or retired sister site Encyclopedia of Fantasy. How are her books?

Started Dune. So far so good, except for a brief glimpse of evil gays, though their exposition helps the anticipation. Wonder if L. Ron might have gotten some inspiration/tips from the Bene Gesserit, or some back-and-forth. Enjoying the "feints within feints within feints," as one character mentions in passing; also enjoying the emphasis on contest, settings, details, nuances, ideas, emotions, in scenes of characters trained to read self and others(so glad it's not first-person, or all from one third person's POV).
Just finished Moby Dick, so all this actually seems kind of easy-reading by comparison.

dow, Thursday, 12 March 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link

"contest"? Well of course, but I meant "context," as in layers and facets of historical.

dow, Thursday, 12 March 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link

I haven't read anything by either of the Tem couple, they wrote a lot together and individually, seemingly with lots of stylistic variation.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 12 March 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link

Wow---he sure stayed creatively active a lot longer than I supposed likely:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/03/terry-pratchett-renowned-fantasy-author-dies-at-66.html?utm_source=PMNL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=150312

dow, Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link

https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/576143524334329857/photo/1

dow, Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_7fe45WcAA5VDA.jpg

dow, Thursday, 12 March 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link

Rattled through Le Guin's The Compass Rose. A few of the stories plain vanilla non-science fiction, and none the worse for it. Over thirty years old but themes of oppressive governments, climate change, just as relevant as ever, quelle surprise. Levity not entirely absent.

ledge, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link

Reading Kipling's "They" right now and I thought this line was very funny.

"Madden, in the pantry, rose to the crisis like a butler and a man."

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 12:05 (nine years ago) link

Finished xpostDune, enjoyed it. Really appreciate the well-timed truth/plot bombs, all the way to the end (and accentuated by the appendices). Also, Paul Atreides is 60s soul brother to Spiderman's Peter Parker, a teenager who doesn't wanna be a Hero, dammit! Of course, they both get into it, then pull back---especially Paul, when he realizes that many if not most futures have him leading a "bloody jihad...with spice-drunk" bravos up front, yuck. But he knows Things Must Change, he just wants to find a new balance, a new wire (the tension of which maybe inspired Le Guin's The Dispossessed). Anyway, pretty cool.

dow, Thursday, 19 March 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link

Oh yeah, there's some bad verses emitted by characters from time to time, but this thins out, and there's actual poetry in the narrative prose, occasionally; contents under pressure, turning up some gems, or semi-precious stones. Like xpost Moby-Dick in both respects.

dow, Thursday, 19 March 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link

Yeah, was surprised how good Dune was when I finally read it. No way am I doing the endless sequels (esp those by others) though.

as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 March 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link

i thought i was the only person on earth who hadn't read dune. i'll get to it eventually. i'll bet i'm the only person on this thread who hasn't read it. bet you anything!

scott seward, Thursday, 19 March 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link

God I think I even read two or three of the sequels.

ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2015 23:35 (nine years ago) link

I avoid series (tho no prob w the one-volume LOTR), but given what SFE Online has to say about the first and second trilogies, I might come back to them (I'm switching between contemporary mainstream, slipstream, genre and canon). Re ones by others, mostly his son and Kevin Anderson, might eventually try prequel The Butlerian Jihad, since that's a hugely important phenomenon in the Duneverse.

dow, Thursday, 19 March 2015 23:36 (nine years ago) link

I read Dune a couple of years ago and really liked it. The speed and agility of the story reminded me of Bester or early Delany -- the opposite of what I expected. Unlike most fat SF novels, it feels a little too short. Several major scenes are tossed off in a few pages. It's easy to understand why Herbert wanted to do more with it.

Brad C., Friday, 20 March 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link

Since he was mentioned earlier..
http://www.arkhamdigest.com/2014/09/interview-mike-allen.html?m=1

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 20 March 2015 02:18 (nine years ago) link

so, like, you guys, area x/southern reach trilogy is seriously one of the greatest things i've ever read. in my life. i loved it so much i kinda don't even want to read anything else by the guy. i don't even want to read interviews with him. i would read an anthology that he edited. that i would do. maybe, possibly, a short story collection. but, for real, that kind of experience is sooooooo amazing to me. i didn't want it to end. i would read the last book soooooo slowly. it is written so well. i really want to read the first book again. not now. but eventually. that thing stunned me. stunned i tell you!

i mean some books just hit you where you live, you know?

scott seward, Friday, 20 March 2015 04:04 (nine years ago) link

yeah, it kicked my ass in many different ways

you could make a case for it being SF or horror or fantasy, and you'd be right whichever you chose ... I'll say SF because the bureaucrat/scientists in the second volume felt more real to me than any other scientists I've encountered in SF

Brad C., Friday, 20 March 2015 13:21 (nine years ago) link

has anyone ever seen the weird fiction anthology he edited with his wife? over a thousand pages apparently.

i would start a thread for area x but i don't even know what i would say about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weird

scott seward, Friday, 20 March 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link

does anyone remember The Cipher by Kathe Koja? where the punk kids find a Lovecraftian hole in a closet? i was reminded of it reading Area X. i loved those Abyss paperbacks. trying to keep the new wave of Books of Blood going. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/07/summer-of-sleaze-kathe-koja

scott seward, Friday, 20 March 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link

(also, i did kinda love how he set up a possible second trilogy of books at the end of area x. or at least another book. i was kinda hoping he would...)

scott seward, Friday, 20 March 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link

anyway, everyone read those books! and then talk about them here. get them from the library if you have to.

scott seward, Friday, 20 March 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link

Koja is editing the newest Year's Best Weird Fiction.

Oddly enough the only Vandermeer book I've read so far is his essay book Monstrous Creatures. It's good but I don't know why I jumped for that one so quick when I have so much sitting around waiting. It has one story called "The Third Bear" which feels like an essay and is quite cute.
Your enthusiasm is duly noted.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 20 March 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link

scott, were you satisfied by the ending of area x? it seemed to me to get very vague and poetic, and i wasn't entirely sure what *happened* in a verifiable way vs. what convoluted version of reality the narrator was relating to us.

rb (soda), Friday, 20 March 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link

Also, I *do* have 'the weird' and it is a good collection. The editors vandermeer seem to favor very very dense prose, and there are a lot of stories that are probably good but also too turgid to hold my attention.

rb (soda), Friday, 20 March 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link

koja cipher downloaded. Thanks!

demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link

well, i'll tell you, i had like 20 pages left of the last book of area x and i had no clue how he was gonna pull it off. and when he kept returning to the director's story it did make me want to scream "bbbbbbut there's no time for her flashback!!!". so, i kinda knew i was going to have to take a literary leap of faith with him. was it completely satisfying? i don't know. i followed along as best i could and i think i was clear about most things. but he really did have to cram a lot into a short space. the last page almost made me cry. but i'm so mean and old now it's hard for me to cry. i definitely had questions about some things that happened at the end.

scott seward, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link

i read most of the abyss paperbacks as they came out. i think it was Death Grip that had cool arty photographs in the book which, at the time, seemed REALLY new wave for mass market horror:

http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2011/02/dellabyss-books-paperback-covers.html

scott seward, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link

i would totally read the cipher again. haven't read it since it came out. sold my copy at Redrum, my appropriately-named book/record store in philly way back when.

scott seward, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link

I've never read any of that Abyss line but people often say it went to shit later on.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link

has anyone ever seen the weird fiction anthology he edited with his wife? over a thousand pages apparently.

it's totally great! can't remember if i blabbed about it before or not but it's much better than their time travel one.

guess i'll have to take a look at this area x thing.

ledge, Friday, 20 March 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link

Yeah I really want to read the Southern Reach Trilogy; also drooling over contents of The Weird. which would go well with my story-a-day diet (currently thrust aside by novels, but this book may lure it ba-ack...)

THE WEIRD: A Compendium of Dark & Strange Stories
Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Foreword: Michael Moorcock
Introduction by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Afterword: China Mieville

Over one hundred years of weird fiction collected in a single volume of 750,000 words. Over 20 nationalities are represented and seven new translations were commissioned for the book, most notably definitive translations of Julio Cortazar’s “Axolotl” and Michel Bernanos’ short novel “The Other Side of the Mountain” (the first translations of these classics in many decades). Other highlights include the short novels / long novellas “The Beak Doctor” by Eric Basso, “Tainaron” by Leena Krohn, and “The Brotherhood of Mutilation” by Brian Evenson. This is among the largest collections of weird fiction ever housed between the covers of one book.

Strands of The Weird represented include classic and mainstream weird tales, weird SF, weird ritual, international weird, and offshoots of the weird influenced by Surrealism, Symbolism, the Gothic, and the Decadent movement. (A discussion of weird modes of fiction can be found in the introduction.)

A compendium is neither as complete as an encyclopedia nor as baggy as a treasury. Although the backbone of the book reflects the immense influence of both Kafka and Lovecraft, we have ventured out from that basic focus to provide different traditions of weird fiction and outliers that are perhaps open to debate. The anthology is meant to be both an interrogation of weird fiction and a conversation with it. We hope that readers will be delighted by the classics included and by the unexpected discoveries found within its pages.

Also, in support of both the anthology and weird fiction, we will be launching http://www.weirdfictionreview.com in October 2011.

Table of Contents

Story order is chronological except for a couple of exceptions transposed for thematic reasons. Stories translated into English are largely positioned by date of first publication in their original language. Authors are North American or from the United Kingdom unless otherwise indicated.

Alfred Kubin, “The Other Side” (excerpt), 1908 (translation, Austria)

F. Marion Crawford, “The Screaming Skull,” 1908

Algernon Blackwood, “The Willows,” 1907

Saki, “Sredni Vashtar,” 1910

M.R. James, “Casting the Runes,” 1911

Lord Dunsany, “How Nuth Would Have Practiced his Art,” 1912

Gustav Meyrink, “The Man in the Bottle,” 1912 (translation, Austria)

Georg Heym, “The Dissection,” 1913 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Germany)

Hanns Heinz Ewers, “The Spider,” 1915 (translation, Germany)

Rabindranath Tagore, “The Hungry Stones,” 1916 (India)

Luigi Ugolini, “The Vegetable Man,” 1917 (new translation by Anna and Brendan Connell, Italy; first-ever translation into English)

A. Merritt, “The People of the Pit,” 1918

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, “The Hell Screen,” 1918 (new translation, Japan)

Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett), “Unseen—Unfeared,” 1919

Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony,” 1919 (translation, German/Czech)

Stefan Grabinski, “The White Weyrak,” 1921 (translation, Poland)

H.F. Arnold, “The Night Wire,” 1926

H.P. Lovecraft, “The Dunwich Horror,” 1929

Margaret Irwin, “The Book,” 1930

Jean Ray, “The Mainz Psalter,” 1930 (translation, Belgium)

Jean Ray, “The Shadowy Street,” 1931 (translation, Belgium)

Clark Ashton Smith, “Genius Loci,” 1933

Hagiwara Sakutoro, “The Town of Cats,” 1935 (translation, Japan)

Hugh Walpole, “The Tarn,” 1936

Bruno Schulz, “Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass,” 1937 (translation, Poland)

Robert Barbour Johnson, “Far Below,” 1939

Fritz Leiber, “Smoke Ghost,” 1941

Leonora Carrington, “White Rabbits,” 1941

Donald Wollheim, “Mimic,” 1942

Ray Bradbury, “The Crowd,” 1943

William Sansom, “The Long Sheet,” 1944

Jorge Luis Borges, “The Aleph,” 1945 (translation, Argentina)

Olympe Bhely-Quenum, “A Child in the Bush of Ghosts,” 1949 (Benin)

Shirley Jackson, “The Summer People,” 1950

Margaret St. Clair, “The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles,” 1951

Robert Bloch, “The Hungry House,” 1951

Augusto Monterroso, “Mister Taylor,” 1952 (new translation by Larry Nolen, Guatemala)

Amos Tutuola, “The Complete Gentleman,” 1952 (Nigeria)

Jerome Bixby, “It’s a Good Life,” 1953

Julio Cortazar, “Axolotl,” 1956 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Argentina)

William Sansom, “A Woman Seldom Found,” 1956

Charles Beaumont, “The Howling Man,” 1959

Mervyn Peake, “Same Time, Same Place,” 1963

Dino Buzzati, “The Colomber,” 1966 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Italy)

Michel Bernanos, “The Other Side of the Mountain,” 1967 (new translation by Gio Clairval, France)

Merce Rodoreda, “The Salamander,” 1967 (translation, Catalan)

Claude Seignolle, “The Ghoulbird,” 1967 (new translation by Gio Clairval, France)

Gahan Wilson, “The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be,” 1967

Daphne Du Maurier, “Don’t Look Now,” 1971

Robert Aickman, “The Hospice,” 1975

Dennis Etchison, “It Only Comes Out at Night,” 1976

James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), “The Psychologist Who Wouldn’t Do Terrible Things to Rats,” 1976

Eric Basso, “The Beak Doctor,” 1977

Jamaica Kincaid, “Mother,” 1978 (Antigua and Barbuda/US)

George R.R. Martin, “Sandkings,” 1979

Bob Leman, “Window,” 1980

Ramsey Campbell, “The Brood,” 1980

Michael Shea, “The Autopsy,” 1980

William Gibson/John Shirley, “The Belonging Kind,” 1981

M. John Harrison, “Egnaro,” 1981

Joanna Russ, “The Little Dirty Girl,” 1982

M. John Harrison, “The New Rays,” 1982

Premendra Mitra, “The Discovery of Telenapota,” 1984 (translation, India)

F. Paul Wilson, “Soft,” 1984

Octavia Butler, “Bloodchild,” 1984

Clive Barker, “In the Hills, the Cities,” 1984

Leena Krohn, “Tainaron,” 1985 (translation, Finland)

Garry Kilworth, “Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands,” 1987

Lucius Shepard, “Shades,” 1987

Harlan Ellison, “The Function of Dream Sleep,” 1988

Ben Okri, “Worlds That Flourish,” 1988 (Nigeria)

Elizabeth Hand, “The Boy in the Tree,” 1989

Joyce Carol Oates, “Family,” 1989

Poppy Z Brite, “His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood,” 1990

Michal Ajvaz, “The End of the Garden,” 1991 (translation, Czech)

Karen Joy Fowler, “The Dark,” 1991

Kathe Koja, “Angels in Love,” 1991

Haruki Murakami, “The Ice Man,” 1991 (translation, Japan)

Lisa Tuttle, “Replacements,” 1992

Marc Laidlaw, “The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio,” 1993

Steven Utley, “The Country Doctor,” 1993

William Browning Spenser, “The Ocean and All Its Devices,” 1994

Jeffrey Ford, “The Delicate,” 1994

Martin Simpson, “Last Rites and Resurrections,” 1994

Stephen King, “The Man in the Black Suit,” 1994

Angela Carter, “The Snow Pavilion,” 1995

Craig Padawer, “The Meat Garden,” 1996

Stepan Chapman, “The Stiff and the Stile,” 1997

Tanith Lee, “Yellow and Red,” 1998

Kelly Link, “The Specialist’s Hat,” 1998

Caitlin R. Kiernan, “A Redress for Andromeda,” 2000

Michael Chabon, “The God of Dark Laughter,” 2001

China Mieville, “Details,” 2002

Michael Cisco, “The Genius of Assassins,” 2002

Neil Gaiman, “Feeders and Eaters,” 2002

Jeff VanderMeer, “The Cage,” 2002

Jeffrey Ford, “The Beautiful Gelreesh,” 2003

Thomas Ligotti, “The Town Manager,” 2003

Brian Evenson, “The Brotherhood of Mutilation,” 2003

Mark Samuels, “The White Hands,” 2003

Daniel Abraham, “Flat Diana,” 2004

Margo Lanagan, “Singing My Sister Down,” 2005 (Australia)

T.M. Wright, “The People on the Island,” 2005

Laird Barron, “The Forest,” 2007

Liz Williams, “The Hide,” 2007

Reza Negarestani, “The Dust Enforcer,” 2008 (Iran)

Micaela Morrissette, “The Familiars,” 2009

Steve Duffy, “In the Lion’s Den,” 2009

Stephen Graham Jones, “Little Lambs,” 2009

K.J. Bishop, “Saving the Gleeful Horse,” 2010 (Australia)

dow, Friday, 20 March 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link

Not seeing Table of Contents (other than Amazon's exclusive Look Inside thingie) for their previous The New Weird, but this blurb is appealing (and speaking of Kathe Koja):
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The VanderMeers (Best American Fantasy) ably demonstrate the sheer breadth of the New Weird fantasy subgenre in this powerful anthology of short fiction and critical essays. Highlights include strong fiction by authors such as M. John Harrison, Clive Barker, Kathe Koja and Michael Moorcock whose work pointed the way to such definitive New Weird tales as Jeffrey Ford's At Reparata and K.J. Bishop's The Art of Dying. Lingering somewhere between dark fantasy and supernatural horror, New Weird authors often seek to create unease rather than full-fledged terror. The subgenre's roots in the British New Wave of the 1960s and the Victorian Decadents can lend a self-consciously literary and experimental aura, as illustrated by the laboratory, where more mainstream fantasy and horror authors, including Sarah Monette and Conrad Williams, try their hands at creating New Weird stories. This extremely ambitious anthology will define the New Weird much as Bruce Sterling's landmark Mirrorshades anthology defined cyberpunk. (Mar.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

dow, Friday, 20 March 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link

re-linked in sfe's Twitter feed, Happy Birthday Rudy Rucker (doesn't mention his online frolics, but almost everything else)(wonder if any of these collections incl. the epochal Forced Exposure interview):
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rucker_rudy

dow, Sunday, 22 March 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link

One thing that entry should have made clearer, I think: his thought experiment stories, the ones I've read anyway, incl. modica of gamey character development ("gamey" as in math rock x "christ you can practically smell him/her")

dow, Sunday, 22 March 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link

ha. Court of the Crimson King is playing on the radio and i just spotted in the lyrics the phrase 'Pattern Juggler'. which was one of the alien races in Revelation Space.

koogs, Monday, 23 March 2015 11:52 (nine years ago) link


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