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The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
Has anyone seen this/read it yet? Awesome collection of 109 stories and novellas and one excerpt, edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer. It's a little more than I would normally spend at $14.99, and it's published by Macmillan, so no deals to be found, and the price probably won't go down for a long time, if ever. (US). Published in UK by Corvus, so there may be some deals to be had there. I decided it was worth it because of the contents and being 1152 pages. Each story is prefaced by some information about the author and the story. Many are public domain but many are also hard-to-find translations to English.
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Amazon There is also sort of a companion website where they are featuring some of the stories and essays about the authors: http://weirdfictionreview.com/category/blog/ Nice articles here about the excerpt, The Other Side, and its author, Alfred Kubin: http://www.dxsuperpremium.com/2007/1...red-kubin.html http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/1...-alfred-kubin/ http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/1...-alfred-kubin/ I've only been able to find the whole ebook of this in English at Amazon for $9.99: http://www.amazon.com/Other-Dedalus-...her+side+kubin |
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07-24-2012, 12:11 AM | #2 |
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Haven't gotten around to reading it in its entirety, but I own both the UK print and eBook version. (The Corvus eBook edition is a bit cheaper by one or two dollars if I'm not mistaken.)
It's a very thick book. To give you an idea, it's a thousand pages long BUT each page runs two columns. Easily the heaviest book I own despite not being a hardcover (ummm, it's heavier than A Dance with Dragons or Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell). There's one story that's different between the US and UK versions but otherwise should be identical. It just doesn't have hard-to-find translations, some of them are new as well. |
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07-24-2012, 07:30 PM | #3 |
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Oh wow - Now I'm really glad I have the Kindle version. Wouldn't want to haul that hardback around. Lol
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I have the Vandemeers' earlier anthology The New Weird, which is a term they apply to writers like China Mieville, K.J. Bishop, and Steph Swainston.
In the introduction they define "New Weird". Quote:
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Thanks, Ben. I will check that one out - it looks interesting.
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Read The New Weird but it's a different beast from The Weird (which spans a long history). New Weird was basically stuff after the New Wave (which is more recognizable in the UK SFF scene than the US, as the latter headed more towards high fantasy and sword & sorcery, although some of the New Wave stuff was published in a section of the New Weird).
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07-26-2012, 04:24 AM | #7 |
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Apparently it's not out in ebook yet anyway.
I think this one is more to my taste. |
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