VanderMeer, Jeff and Ann (ed.) - The New Weird / Вандермеер, Джефф и Энн (ред.) - Новая "странная" литература [2008, EPUB, ENG]

The New Weird: "It's Alive?" essay by Jeff VanderMeer The Luck in the Head / Счастливая голова novelette by M. John Harrison In the Hills, the Cities / Холмы, города novelette by Clive Barker Crossing into Cambodia: A Story of the Third World War short story by Michael Moorcock The Braining of Mother Lamprey novelette by Simon Ings The Neglected Garden short story by Kathe Koja A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing short story by Thomas Ligotti Jack / Джек short story by China Mieville Immolation / Жертва short story by Jeffrey Thomas The Lizard of Ooze short story by Jay Lake Watson's Boy novelette by Brian Evenson The Art of Dying short story by K. J. Bishop At Reparata novelette by Jeffrey Ford Letters from Tainaron (An Excerpt from the Short Novel Tainaron) short story by Leena Krohn The Ride of the Gabbleratchet short story by Steph Swainston The Gutter Sees the Light That Never Shines short story by Alistair Rennie New Weird Discussions: The Creation of a Term essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer "New Weird": I Think We're the Scene essay by Michael Cisco Tracking Phantoms essay by Darja Malcolm-Clarke Whose Words You Wear essay by K. J. Bishop European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: "Creating the New Weird to Work for Us" essay by Martin Sust European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: "The New Weird Treachery" essay by Michael Haulica European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: "There is No New Weird" essay by Hannes Riffel European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: "Blurring the Lines" essay by Jukka Halme European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: "The Uncleaned Kettle" essay by Konrad Walewski Festival Lives: The New Weird Round Robin essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer Festival Lives, View 1: Death in a Dirty Dhoti short fiction by Paul Di Filippo Festival Lives, View 2: Cornflowers Beside the Unuttered short fiction by Cat Rambo Festival Lives, View 3: All God's Chillun Got Wings short fiction by Sarah Monette Festival Lives, View 4: Locust-Mind short fiction by Daniel Abraham Festival Lives, View 5: Constable Chalch and the Ten Thousand Heroes short fiction by Felix Gilman Festival Lives, View 6: Golden Lads All Must... short fiction by Hal Duncan Festival Lives, View 7: Forfend the Heavens' Rending short fiction by Conrad Williams

UROCONIUM, Ardwick Crome said, was for all its beauty an indifferent city. Its people loved the arena; they were burning or quartering somebody every night for political or religious crimes. They hadn't much time for anything else. From where he lived, at the top of a tenement on the outskirts of Montrouge, you could often see the fireworks in the dark, or hear the shouts on the wind. He had two rooms. In one of them was an iron-framed bed with a few blankets on it, pushed up against a washstand he rarely used. Generally he ate his meals cold, though he had once tried to cook an egg by lighting a newspaper under it. He had a chair, and a tall white ewer with a picture of the courtyard of an inn on it. The other room, a small north-light studio once occupied - so tradition in the Artists' Quarter had it - by Kristodulos Fleece the painter, he kept shut. It had some of his books in it, also the clothes in which he had first come to Uroconium and which he had thought then were fashionable. He was not a well-known poet, although he had his following. Every morning he would write for perhaps two hours, first restricting himself to the bed by means of three broad leather straps which his father had given him and to which he fastened himself, at the ankles, the hips, and finally across his chest. The sense of unfair confinement or punishment induced by this, he found, helped him to think. . . .