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Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

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Ann VanderMeer has been a publisher and editor for over twenty years who currently serves as the fiction editor of Weird Tales and as a guest editor for Best American Fantasy. She is the founder of the award-winning Buzzcity Press. Work from her press and related periodicals has won the British Fantasy Award, the International Rhysling Award, and appeared in several year’s best anthologies. Ann was also the founder of The Silver Web magazine, a periodical devoted to experimental and avant-garde fantasy literature. A Best of the Silver Web anthology is forthcoming from Prime Books. Books published by Buzzcity Press include the Theodore Sturgeon Award finalist Dradin, In Love by Jeff VanderMeer and the International Horror Guild Award-winning The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco. Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award-winning Leviathan series and the Hugo Finalist The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. She is co-editing the following anthologies as well: The New Weird; Fast Ships, Black Sails; Last Drink Bird Head; and Love-Drunk Book Heads.

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of the best-selling City of Saints and Madmen, set in his signature creation, the imaginary city of Ambergris, in addition to several other novels from Bantam, Tor, and Pan Macmillan. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, an NEA-funded Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, and, most recently, the Le Cafard cosmique Award in France and the Tähtifantasia Award in Finland. He has also been a finalist for the Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, IHG Award, Philip K. Dick Award, and many others. Novels such as Veniss Underground and Shriek: An Afterword have made the year’s best lists of Amazon.com, The Austin Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly. His work, both books and short stories, has been translated into over twenty languages. The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases may be his most famous anthology, and is considered a cult classic, still in print along with his Leviathan original fiction series. Recently, VanderMeer began to experiment in other media, resulting in a movie based on his novel Shriek that featured an original soundtrack by rock band The Church and a PlayStation Europe animation of his story “A New Face in Hell” by animator Joel Veitch. Currently, VanderMeer is writing a noir thriller called Finch.
The New Weird
by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Cover design by Ann Monn
Cover art by Insect Lab
Interior design by John D. Berry
Trade paperback, 432 pp.

Web exclusive New Weird fiction:

New!: The Lizard of Ooze by Jay Lake

Tangled in the Nets of the Gods by Paul Di Filippo: the unpublished coda to the original Insect Lab round robin, "Festival Lives."


Visions of madness
Descend into shadowy cities, grotesque rituals, chaotic festivals, and deadly cults. Plunge into terrifying domains, where bodies are remade into surreal monstrosities, where the desperate rage against brutal tyrants. Where everything is lethal and no one is innocent, where Peake began and Lovecraft left off—this is where you will find the New Weird.

Come a little closer
Edgy, urban fiction with a visceral immediacy, the New Weird has descended from classic fantasy and dime-store pulp novels, from horror and detective comics, from thrillers and noir. All grown-up, it emerges from the chrysalis of nostalgia as newly literate, shocking, and utterly innovative.

Here is the very best of the New Weird from some of its greatest practitioners. This canonic anthology collects the original online debates first defining the New Weird and critical writings from international editors, culminating in a groundbreaking round-robin piece, “Festival Lives,” which features some of the hottest new names in New Weird fiction.

Remember — you can’t leave if you can’t see the exit

*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.
-Publishers Weekly

STARRED REVIEW. The 2000 publication of China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station codified a new vision of both fantasy and sf, a startling blend of visceral imagery and fresh evocative prose that marked the evolution of imaginative fiction into a form that drew from fantasy, sf, and horror to create something indefinably new. This collection of 16 stories and essays, including a round-robin (“Festival Lives”) in seven parts plus a conclusion available on the publisher's web site, presents a select sample of previously published and new examples of the "new weird." From Miéville's expansion on his world of New Crobuzon focusing on the deliberately mutilated creatures called the Remade ("Jack") to Clive Barker's horrifically stunning portrayal of two cities in literal battle ("In the Cities, the Hills") the tales live up to their assigned category. Other contributing authors include Michael Moorcock, Sarah Monette, K.J. Bishop, and M. John Harrison. Highly recommended for all libraries interested in the latest in sf and fantasy as well as modern horror.
-Library Journal

The first comprehensive anthology of the movement...
UK Guardian



 

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