The New Weird on Guardian Books
I’ve written an introduction to the New Weird and experimental SF for the Guardian book blog. When M John Harrison started the debate that would crystallise definitions of the term “New Weird” in 2003,...
View ArticleWhatever happened to the Next Weird?
The first Guardian blog post I wrote (just under two years ago…how time flies!) was titled The new world of the New Weird. I wrote the piece fully aware that the New Weird had already been and gone,...
View ArticleIs there any decent Bizarro fiction out there?
So the term Bizarro fiction has crossed my path three times in as many days. That trips my curiosity circuits, which in turn activate my data collection probes, which tell me that I need to read some...
View ArticleAt the Mountains of Weirdness
(I was too ill to link this from my blog when it was published on The Guardian online, so here it is now.) I am forced into speech because men of letters refuse to act without knowing why. It is...
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