Most Read This Week In New Weird

In the introduction to Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's anthology, The New Weird, New Weird is defined as "a type of urban, secondary-world fiction that subverts the romanticized ideas about place found in traditional fantasy, largely by choosing realistic, complex real-world models as the jumping off point for creation of settings that may combine elements of both science fiction and fantasy."

New Weird is largely inspired by the pulp horror serials of the past, such as those compiled in the magazine "Weird Tales," to which acclaimed horror author H.P. Lovecraft was a major contributor. New Weird, in
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Most Read This Week Tagged "New Weird"

There Is No Antimemetics Division
Absolution (Southern Reach #4)
If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)
Hollow
Ambergris (Ambergris, #1-3)
A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1)
Gogmagog (The Chronicles of Ludwich #1)
Ludluda (The Chronicles of Ludwich, #2)
The Broken God (The Black Iron Legacy, #3)
Within Without
Creeping Jenny
The Shadow Saint (The Black Iron Legacy, #2)
The Navigating Fox
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
Kill Six Billion Demons, Book 4: King of Swords
Big Dark Hole

China Miéville
Ils se laissèrent porter en direction du nord, vers la gare de Perdido. Ils tournaient lentement, revigorés par cette présence urbaine massive, profane, en dessous d'eux, par ce lieu fécond, grouillant, tel qu'aucun de leurs semblables n'en avait jamais connu jusque là. Partout, le moindre secteur – ponts obscurs, hôtels particuliers vieux de cinq siècles, bazars tortueux, entrepôts de béton, tours, péniches d'habitation, taudis répugnants et parcs au cordeau – grouillait de nourriture. C'était ...more
China Miéville, Perdido Street Station: Tome 1

Jeff Vandermeer
Be', dipende dai soffitti alti, no? Vedi cose che non esistono. E le cose che vedi sembrano altre cose. Un uccello può essere un pipistrello. Un pipistrello può essere una busta di plastica che vola. Così va il mondo. Vedi una cosa per un'altra. Uccelli-foglie. Pipistrelli-uccelli. Ombre fatte di luci. Rumori accidentali che sembrano più significativi. È sempre così, dovunque vai. ...more
Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

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