The New Weird: Coming to a Bookstore Near You
We just got our copies of The New Weird, which looks beautiful. Tachyon did a great job with it. (Contributor copies will go out post-haste, along with remaining payments.)
The book should be in bookstores now or soon. I hope you’ll check this one out–TOC below the cut. It’s a reprint anthology, but has over 100 pages of original material, and some of the previously published fiction is hard to find.
THE NEW WEIRD (material original to anthology in bold)
Introduction
“The New Weird: ‘It’s Alive?’” – Jeff VanderMeer
Stimuli
M. John Harrison – “The Luck in the Head”
Michael Moorcock – “Crossing into Cambodia”
Clive Barker – “In the Cities, the Hills”
Simon D. Ings – “The Braining of Mother Lamprey”
Kathe Koja – “The Neglected Garden”
Thomas Ligotti – “A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing”
Evidence
China Miéville – “Jack”
Jeffrey Thomas – “Immolation”
Jay Lake – “The Lizard of Ooze”
Brian Evenson – “Watson’s Boy”
K .J. Bishop – “The Art of Dying”
Jeffrey Ford – “At Reparata”
Leena Krohn – “Letters from Tainaron”
Steph Swainston – “The Ride of the Gabbleratchet”
Alistair Rennie – “The Gutter Sees the Light That Never Shines”
Symposium
“New Weird Discussions: The Creation of a Term”
Michael Cisco – “‘New Weird’: I Think We’re the Scene”
Darja Malcolm-Clarke – “Tracking Phantoms”
K. J. Bishop – “Whose Words You Wear”
“European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird” (Hannes Riffel, Michael Haulica, Jukka Halme, Martin Sust, Konrad Walewski)
Laboratory
“Festival Lives”
Preamble: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
View 1: “Death in a Dirty Dhoti” – Paul Di Filippo
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
February 3, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I already bought mine in Amazon.com. Can´t wait!
The SF writers´ community in Brazil is very interested in the New Weird right now. Good luck for you and for all the writers in the anthology!
February 3, 2008 at 6:54 pm
It’s already on the shelves at the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge. I picked it up on Friday.
February 3, 2008 at 7:46 pm
it’s such a beautiful book, both inside and outside!
February 3, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I saw it in the Barnes and Noble here in Fairbanks, AK last night. I have a copy on order through the other bookstore in town, I’m looking forward to reading it.
February 3, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Mine came in the mail yesterday – sooooo cool! It’s like New Weird 101 from the College of Speculative Fiction.
February 3, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Bought it off Amazon earlier in the week, but saw it today (Sunday) at the local Melbourne, FL) Barnes and Noble.
February 4, 2008 at 5:59 am
Yes, this one looks really interesting. Not available at the book depository as yet (presumably no different UK version or anything??), wonder if it will find its way into shops here.
February 4, 2008 at 10:54 am
[...] Sumarul complet (cu bold sînt textele publicate în premieră) aşa cum apare pe blogul lui Jeff VanderMeer (linkul este la însemnarea respectivă, m-am gîndit că poate vreţi să vedeţi cum comentează [...]
February 4, 2008 at 11:21 am
Mine arrived from Amazon on Friday. Beautiful book! Next on the list after I finish Richard Kadrey’s Butcher Bird, which is already overdue at the library and which is blowing my mind.
February 4, 2008 at 11:23 am
Nice to see this out in the world. I’ll look forward to picking up a copy.
February 4, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Damien–let me know if you need a review copy, okay?
The book is available in the UK as well as the US, but it is probably only being physically stocked in the UK by specialty booksellers.
Matt–thanks for that comment. That’s basically what we were going for. Initial reviews have been outstanding, although I do expect genre politics to rear its ugly head in a few reviews.
JeffV
February 4, 2008 at 2:27 pm
And, in fact, Tachyon just told me an extremely positive Library Journal review is coming out Feb. 15th. Don’t know if it’s a star or not, but they say “highly recommended”.
Jeff
February 4, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Jeff, dare I ask if it’s possible if I could get a review copy, since I don’t know who to contact over there for one?
February 4, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Sure–and if anyone else needs one, send me your contact info and review venues you work for and we’ll do what we can based on availability of review copies: vanderworld at hotmail dot com.
jv
February 4, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Thanks Jeff. Tachyon sent me one through.
February 4, 2008 at 5:49 pm
[...] a scris astăzi şi Mike Haulică (unul dintre cei al căror nume se regăseşte în cuprins), a scris şi Jeff VanderMeer (editorul antologiei, alături de soţia sa Ann) ieri. Găsiţi la ei sumarul detaliat, iar la Jeff [...]
February 4, 2008 at 5:56 pm
As seen in the bloglink-pingback-comment above, I got my ARC of New Weird last Friday, along with review copies of Rewired, Feeling Very Strange and the Tiptree Award anthos. Blogged about all of them (sorry it’s in Romanian!) and I’m going to start talking to the nice people at Tachyon about possible translations.
February 4, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Horia, what’s scary is that I understood about 2/3 of that. Then again, Spanish is somewhat related to Romanian, no?
February 5, 2008 at 3:43 am
@larry: both are latin-based languages, so there’s nothing scary to that. be my guest to visit the blog more often :)
February 5, 2008 at 4:51 am
[...] Â Editor extraordinaire Jeff VanderMeer reports that The New Weird anthology is now available for purchase at high street bookstores across the US. [...]
February 5, 2008 at 4:55 am
[...] Editor extraordinaire Jeff VanderMeer reports that The New Weird anthology is now available for purchase at high street bookstores across the US. [...]
February 5, 2008 at 5:12 am
Whoops. Sorry for doing that twice. I’m trying to develop some blog pages and things seem to be doing things by themselves.
Nice to see the New Weird antho is now live and dangerous!
February 5, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Horia, I knew that! :P It’s just still a surprise (pleasant, but still a surprise) how much I understand when I come across something in another Romance language. And from the little that I did understand (about half), I might have to visit again.
February 5, 2008 at 1:43 pm
that’s one nice surprise, to be able to make oneself understandable (at least by half) to someone, in one’s own language (which is not a very common one). a couple of minutes ago i had a comment from a nice blogger in brazil, who said about the same thing. and guess what? i can understand most of his blog! and guess (again) what: he’s been coming to my blog from this same direction! one just has to love this blog :)
February 5, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Horia: What are you babbling on about?!??!!
JV ;)
February 5, 2008 at 1:59 pm
dunno myself… i think i was bragging around with the foreign visitors to my blog who understand my language… and at the same time, praising your blog for giving them the oportunity to get to my blog… is that a bit more understandable?
February 5, 2008 at 2:23 pm
It was understandable the first time! I was just being silly!
JV
February 5, 2008 at 3:23 pm
i’m tired. i don’t get the jokes, i am incoherent… that whole south china sea adventure has left a deep mark on my brain :)
February 5, 2008 at 7:39 pm
I´m the guy from Brazil (just to make this exchange of comments more fun). :-)
February 6, 2008 at 12:45 am
Language: What’s a few vowel shifts and declension drops among friends?
Although those pesky enclitics still need to be explained to me, although doubtless the subjunctive mood would be just as headache-inducing for others, I suppose ;)
Maybe Jeff can surprise us with some Malay to top things off?
February 6, 2008 at 6:28 am
Funny, Horia! So how’d you get that predator in the end?
Mine is in the mail. Damn, can’t wait to read this!
February 6, 2008 at 12:46 pm
@Roar: that’s a secret of the trade :)
February 6, 2008 at 12:47 pm
He lobbed Romanian sayings at the Predator until it expired.
JV
February 6, 2008 at 6:15 pm
@jeff: you talk too much and reveal what shall remain a secret. there’s a Romanian saying for that too: “your mouth beats your ass”. so be warned. :)
February 6, 2008 at 9:06 pm
The Book Depository has it listed now for those non-USA and free postage liking people :)
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/showbook.php?id=1892391554
February 7, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Mine arrived today, courtesy of the Book Depository, and it’s really really gorgeous. It’s going to be a struggle not to jump straight in before finishing the current book I’m reading.
February 7, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Ouch! Poor Predator!