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The New Weird defines itself with a table of contents and list of contributors

By Ian Randal Strock

Tachyon Publications will be publishing Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's movement-defining anthology, The New Weird in February 2008. They've just released the table of contents, which is:

Introduction:
"The New Weird: 'It's Alive?'" by Jeff VanderMeer

Stimuli:
"The Luck in the Head" by M. John Harrison
"Crossing into Cambodia" by Michael Moorcock
"In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker
"The Braining of Mother Lamprey" by Simon D. Ings
"The Neglected Garden" by Kathe Koja
"A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing" by Thomas Ligotti

Evidence:
"Jack" by China Miéville
"Immolation" by Jeffrey Thomas
"The Lizard of Ooze" by Jay Lake
"Watson's Boy" by Brian Evenson
"The Art of Dying" by K.J. Bishop
"At Reparata" by Jeffrey Ford
"Letters from Tainaron" by Leena Krohn
"The Ride of the Gabbleratchet" by Steph Swainston
"The Gutter Sees the Light That Never Shines" (original) by Alistair Rennie

Discussion:
"New Weird: The Creation of a Term"
"'New Weird': I Think We're the Scene" by Michael Cisco
"Tracking Phantoms" by Darja Malcolm-Clarke
"Whose Words You Wear" by K.J. Bishop
"European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird"

Laboratory (Original round-robin story): "Festival Lives"
Preamble: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
View 1: "Death in a Dirty Dhoti" by Paul Di Filippo
View 2: "Cornflowers Beside the Unuttered" by Cat Rambo
View 3: "All God's Chillun Got Wings" by Sarah Monette
View 4: "Locust-Mind" by Daniel Abraham
View 5: "Constable Chalch and the Ten Thousand Heroes" by Felix Gilman
View 6: "Golden Lads All Must…" by Hal Duncan
View 7: "Forfend the Heavens' Rending" by Conrad Williams

Recommended Reading
Biographical Notes

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