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mentatjack.com - 6/1/2009
Reading: The New Weird
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I picked up a copy of The New Weird, because I recognized about 1/2 of the authors. I tried to piece together in my mind what this “New Weird” was, thinking back over what I’d read by K. J. Bishop, Clive Barker, Jay Lake, and Paul Di Filippo. I mixed in what I [...]
jeffvandermeer.com - 6/2/2009
New Weird Reading List
— jeffvandermeer.com — For those who might be looking for more strange books to read, Steven Klotz, who was kind... enough to ask our permission, has posted the recommended reading list from our New Weird anthology, along with some other thoughts on the book. Does New ... (more) New Weird Reading List

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New Weird Reading List
Ecstatic Days — ... For those who might be looking for more strange books to read, Steven Klotz, who was kind enough to ask our permission, has posted the recommended reading list from our New Weird anthology, along with some other thoughts on the book. ...

[links] Link salad has a city on its mind
Lakeshore — JayCon is his coming Saturday! Mark your calendars: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] A reader reacts to Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon thb | Audible ] — Not so much with the liking, this one. A reader reacts to The New Weird A reader reacts to Paper Cities The museum of unworkable devices How many spoken languages? How many computer languages? ?otD: Is your karma manual or automatic? ...

SF Tidbits for 6/2/09
SF Signal — ... Google Kindles Electronic Book War Finally an explanation for why cats fail to grasp string theory: "...domestic felines don't seem to understand cause and effect connections between objects." Lists: James Nicoll points us this 1977 (but still cool) The NESFA Core Reading List of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Mike Brotherton lists 10 Science Fiction Dream Vacations. MentatJack has posted the The New Weird Reading List, taken from Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's anthology The New ...

The New Weird Anthology – Notes and Introduction
Ecstatic Days — ... As a further resource, MentatJack has begun a review of the anthology, with the first post reproducing our list of New Weird texts (with links) and the second ...

Book Bloggers: Top Post Submissions
Only The Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy — ... Mentatjak Reading: The New Weird Both Jay Lake and Jeff VanderMeer linked to this post from their blog, which provided a good deal of traffic. I've also gotten more links than usual (none driving as much traffic as the 2 author's ...

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