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Uber User Posts: 39 | There is no litmus test for weirdness. It crops up everywhere from Lovecraft and his followers to about half the titles that come out of Eastern Europe and Latin America. Let's use the forum to talk about what we are reading, introduce new authors, and report on specialty publishers. There is now a subgenre for "weird" in sf, fantasy, and horror. I have begun labelling things, but be sure to add the subgenre to whatever you read if it is not already there. This will build a searchable list of weirdness for those who follow. | ||
pizzakarin |
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Veteran Posts: 111 Location: Austin, Tx | While I don't think I have any more challenges in me this year (but who knows, maybe I'll find myself reading at least three), I did go tag my two favorite weird books from last year: * Mort(e) by Robert Repino - which I didn't love, but going into it with the mindset of reading bizarro fiction would have made it better * If Then by Mathew de Abitua - my favorite slipstream, military alt history, benevolent overlord algorithm, weird biostuff, exosuit, and so on book of 2015 Any feelings out there on whether Rudy Rucker's Ware tetrology counts? I've read Software and am into Wetware and it definitely has a weird vibe. | ||
Engelbrecht |
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Uber User Posts: 454 | pizzakarin - 2016-01-13 2:01 PM Any feelings out there on whether Rudy Rucker's Ware tetrology counts? I've read Software and am into Wetware and it definitely has a weird vibe. Well, books 2 & 3 are certainly weird, and I would have to think that book 4 is as well... | ||
charlesdee |
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Uber User Posts: 39 | pizzakarin - 2016-01-13 4:01 PM While I don't think I have any more challenges in me this year (but who knows, maybe I'll find myself reading at least three), I did go tag my two favorite weird books from last year: * Mort(e) by Robert Repino - which I didn't love, but going into it with the mindset of reading bizarro fiction would have made it better * If Then by Mathew de Abitua - my favorite slipstream, military alt history, benevolent overlord algorithm, weird biostuff, exosuit, and so on book of 2015 Any feelings out there on whether Rudy Rucker's Ware tetrology counts? I've read Software and am into Wetware and it definitely has a weird vibe. Come on, pizzakarin. Join up. At least be a Resident of Arkham. I think I was a bit late out of the gate to attract many challengees. One good thing about weird titles -- they almost all serves as titles on other challenges as well. And I don't know Rucker's books. But given what I read about The New Weird, the category can be made very inclusive. | ||
pizzakarin |
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Veteran Posts: 111 Location: Austin, Tx | charlesdee - 2016-01-14 12:41 PM Come on, pizzakarin. Join up. At least be a Resident of Arkham. ooooooooooookay. I'll do it. I love the weird stuff. | ||
dustydigger |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1031 Location: UK | What a pity that this challenge wasnt around back in 2014. I worked my way through a lot of HPL.some Ashton Smith,Arthur Machen,M R James,even Carmilla! I loved all that stuff,but at the moment I am deep into 50s and 60s SF,and have filled in all my reading slots for the year. But if I may,I would love to pop in and comment on some of the stuff I read back then.Probably later in the year. I would have liked to chat last year,Charles,but you never set up a forum page. Tut tut!!! | ||
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dustydigger - 2016-01-14 10:00 PM What a pity that this challenge wasnt around back in 2014. I worked my way through a lot of HPL.some Ashton Smith,Arthur Machen,M R James,even Carmilla! I loved all that stuff,but at the moment I am deep into 50s and 60s SF,and have filled in all my reading slots for the year. But if I may,I would love to pop in and comment on some of the stuff I read back then.Probably later in the year. I would have liked to chat last year,Charles,but you never set up a forum page. Tut tut!!! We would love to hear from you. And sorry about the forum page last year. I am not very good at a lot of this stuff. | |||
dustydigger |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1031 Location: UK | Hah,tell me about it Charles. Friends over on the Shelfari website would often tease me when I would ask questions or be bewildered by technical stuff . They claimed my mantra should be ''eyes glazing,eyes glazing'' when someone tried to teach me something. Unfortunately,Amazon is forcibly closing down Shelfari with only 2 months warning,and I am admin of several groups,and need to tranfer huge amounts of data over to a place with very different procedures and layouts.Its a steep learning curve,and the finger that presses the ''delete'' button is rapidly developing callouses as I struggle to cope with it all.! | ||
charlesdee |
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Uber User Posts: 39 | I have been adding the various weird sub genres (Fantasy Horror, SF) to titles already in the system. This is a hit and miss process, something I do when I come across a title or author that fits or when I just feel like puttering. But it is something everyone who is reading in the weird category can pitch in on. I am also adding some contemporary authors who do not publish as genre authors but who definitely belong with their weird cohorts. Blake Butler is a recent example. Please draw my attention to anyone you come across. | ||
Engelbrecht |
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Uber User Posts: 454 | charlesdee - 2016-02-16 4:54 AM Please draw my attention to anyone you come across. I went through my to-read list and poked about on Goodreads and came up with a bunch of books that look weird but that are pretty much off the radar. It's a fair amount of experimental/surrealism/uncatagorizable stuff, with Europeans fairly heavily represented. There's also a little bit of bizarro stuff, but only a few - a little of that goes a long way! It's one book per author, and only authors that I haven't read (I think you have a good starter list of weird stuff I've read). Anyhow, here's more weirdness than you can shake a stick at! | ||
pizzakarin |
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Veteran Posts: 111 Location: Austin, Tx | I just finished my 3rd and final "Weird" book, Don't Read This Book edited by Chuck Wendig. It's a bit of an obscure one (all the better for the weird catagory, right?) because it's a collection of short fiction based on the "Don't Rest Your Head" RPG. As with most short story collections there were some that were to my taste and some that weren't. And as with any short story collection where writers are commissioned to write stories, there is at least one that wouldn't have gotten published on its own merits. But, as far as weirdness goes, there was a lot of it. My favorite story, "Don't Lose Your drek" by Robin D Laws is about an insomniac music journalist who has invented his own invisible punctuation mark and is wandering the aisles of a convenience store trying to figure out which can of energy drink will keep him awake instead of making him crash. | ||
dustydigger |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1031 Location: UK | Anyone here a member of LibraryThing? They have a group called <b> The Weird Tradition</b> which reads and discusses a weird short story every week,and the list is very, very impressive. Once again we ex-shelfarians are on the move. The owner of Leafmarks ,to which we moved our stuff lock stock and barrel in Feb, has decided to close down,giving us one month's warning. Much hassle once again moving groups,lists etc to a new place,with yet another different layout and a steep learning curve....sigh....... But If I ever get settled in finally,I would love to get back into the weird stuff. I dipped a toe in the water last year and thoroughly enjoyed it,but this year is out of the question. If you continue the challenge next year I hope to join you! | ||
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