Ann VanderMeer

This avant-garde anthology that presents and defines the New Weird—a hip, stylistic fiction that evokes the gritty exuberance of pulp novels and dime-store comic books—creates a new literature that is entirely unprecedented and utterly compelling. Assembling an array of talent, this collection includes contributions from visionaries Michael Moorcock and China Miéville, modern icon Clive Barker, and audacious new talents Hal Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, and Sarah Monette. An essential snapshot of a vibrant movement in popular fiction, this anthology also features critical writings from authors, theorists, and international editors as well as witty selections from online debates. Contents Introduction: The New Weird: “It’s Alice?” by Jeff VanderMeer “The Gutter Sees the Light That Never Shines” by Alistair Rennie “Watson’s Boy” by Brian Evenson “Cornflowers Beside the Unuttered” by Cat Rambo “Jack” by China Miéville “In the Hills, the Cities” by Clive Barker “Forfend the Heaven’s Rending” by Conrad Williams “Locust-Mind” by Daniel Abraham “Tracking Phantoms” by Darja Malcolm-Clarke “Constable Chalch and the Ten Thousand Heroes” by Felix Gilman “The Lizard of Ooze” by Jay Lake “Festival Lives: Preamble: An Essay” by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer “At Reparata” by Jeffrey Ford “Immolation” by Jeffrey Thomas “The Art of Dying” by Darja Malcolm-Clarke “Whose Words You Wear” by K. J. Bishop “The Neglected Garden” by Kathy Koja “Letters from Tainaron” by Leena Krohn “The Luck in the Head” by M. John Harrison “Crossing Cambodia” by Michael Moorcock “Death in a Dirty Dhorti” by Paul Di Filippo “All God’s Chillun Got Wings” by Sarah Monette “The Braining of Mother Lamprey” by Simon D. Ings “The Ride of the Gabbleratchet” by Steph Swainston “A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing” by Thomas Ligotti “European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: An Essay” by Martin Šust, Michael Haulica, Hannes Riffel, Jukka Halme, Konrad Walewski “The New Weird: I Think We’re the Scene” by Michael Cisco “New Weird Discussions: The Creation of a Term” by various authors

From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here... but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon.

Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the 1970s to the present day, the collection seeks to expand the conversation about feminism while engaging the reader in a wealth of imaginative ideas. Sisters of the Revolution seeks to expand the ideas of both contemporary fiction and feminism to new fronts. Contents: The forbidden words of Margaret A. / L. Timmel Duchamp -- My flannel knickers / Leonora Carrington -- The mothers of Shark Island / Kit Reed -- The palm tree bandit / Nnedi Okorafor -- The grammarian's five daughters / Eleanor Arnason -- And Salome danced / Kelley Eskridge -- The perfect married woman / Angélica Gorodischer -- The glass bottle trick / Nalo Hopkinson -- Their mother's tears : the fourth letter / Leena Krohn -- The screwfly solution / James Tiptree, Jr. -- Seven losses of na Re / Rose Lemberg -- The evening and the morning and the night / Octavia E. Butler -- The sleep of plants / Anne Richter -- The men who live in trees / Kelly Barnhill -- Tales from the breast / Hiromi Goto -- The Fall River axe murders / Angela Carter -- Love and sex among the invertebrates / Pat Murphy -- When it changed / Joanna Russ -- The woman who thought she was a planet / Vandana Singh -- Gestella / Susan Palwick -- Boys / Carol Emshwiller -- Stable strategies for middle management / Eileen Gunn -- Northern chess / Tanith Lee -- Aunts / Karin Tidbeck -- Sur / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Fears / Pamela Sargent -- Detours on the way to nothing / Rachel Swirsky -- Thirteen ways of looking at space/time / Catherynne M. Valente -- Home by the sea / Elisabeth Vonaburg.

Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of fantastical stories. Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern scientific advances—synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steam-driven robots, analog supercomputers, and ultramodern dirigibles. The elegant allure of this popular new genre is represented in this rich collection by distinctively talented authors, including: Content "Introduction: The 19th Century Roots of Steampunk" by Jess Nevins "Benediction: Excerpt from The Warlord of the Air" by Michael Moorcock "Lord Kelvin's Machine" by James P. Blaylock "The Giving Mouth" by Ian R. MacLeod "A Sun in the Attic" by Mary Gentle "The God-Clown is Near" by Jay Lake "The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel" by Joe R. Lansdale "The Selene Gardening Society" by Molly Brown "Seventy-Two Letters" by Ted Chiang "The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance" by Michael Chabon "Victoria" by Paul Di Filippo "Reflected Light" by Rachel E. Pollock "Minutes of the Last Meeting" by Stepan Chapman "Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast" by Neal Stephenson "The Steam-Driven Time Machine: A Pop Culture Survey" by Rick Klaw "The Essential Sequential Steampunk: A Modest Survey of the Genre within the Comic Book Medium" by Bill Baker

The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most  definitive  collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations. This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life.

You’ll be astonished by what you’ll find in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. Editors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have gathered together a spectacular array of exhibits, oddities, images, and stories by some of the most renowned and bestselling writers and artists in speculative and graphic fiction, including Ted Chiang, Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), China Miéville, and Michael Moorcock. A spectacularly illustrated anthology of Victorian steampunk devices and the stories behind them, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities is a boldly original, enthrallingly imaginative, and endlessly entertaining entry into a hidden world of weird science and unnatural nature that will appeal equally to fantasy lovers and graphic novel aficionados.

Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original stories guaranteed to make you walk and talk like a pirate. Table of Content "Boojum" by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette "Castor on Troubled Waters" by Rhys Hughes "I Begyn as I Mean To Go On" by Kage Baker "Avast, Abaft!" by Howard Waldrop "Elegy to Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores, And Righteous Thieves" by Kelly Barnhill "Skillet and Saber" by Justin Howe "The Nymph's Child" by Carrie Vaughn "68° 07' 15"N, 31° 36' 44"W" by Conrad Williams "Ironface" by Michael Moorcock "Pirates Solutions" by Katherine Sparrow "We Sleep on Thousand Waves beneath the Stars" by Brendan Connell "Voyage of the Iguana" by Steve Aylett "Pirates of the Saura Sea" by David Freer & Eric Flint "A Cold Day in Hell" By Paul Batteiger "The Adventures of Captain Black Heart Wentworth" by Rachel Swirsky "Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake" by Naomi Novik "The Whale below" by Jayme Lynn Blaschke "Beyond the Seagate ff the Scholar-Pirate of Sarskoe" by Garth Nix -

You’ll be astonished by what you’ll find in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. Editors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have gathered together a spectacular array of exhibits, oddities, images, and stories by some of the most renowned and bestselling writers and artists in speculative and graphic fiction, including Ted Chiang, Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), China Miéville, and Michael Moorcock. A spectacularly illustrated anthology of Victorian steampunk devices and the stories behind them, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities is a boldly original, enthrallingly imaginative, and endlessly entertaining entry into a hidden world of weird science and unnatural nature that will appeal equally to fantasy lovers and graphic novel aficionados.

Le visionarie raccoglie ventinove racconti che tratteggiano i contorni di un mondo di volta in volta futuristico, inquietante, onirico o semplicemente strano. Sono racconti che spaziano dalla fantascienza al fantasy, dall’horror alla weird fiction, scritti da donne che hanno fatto la storia e il presente della narrativa fantastica, e che incrociano gusto per l’invenzione di mondi altri e riflessione femminista. Il risultato è un caleidoscopio di storie immaginarie che, in maniera imprevista e mai ordinaria, legano letteratura di genere e letteratura sul genere. Tra le visionarie che si alternano in questa antologia, troviamo tanto nomi classici come Ursula K. Le Guin e Angela Carter quanto nuove protagoniste della speculative fiction come Nnedi Okorafor, tanto firme storiche come Octavia E. Butler e Joanna Russ quanto figure inclassificabili come Leonora Carrington, tanto maestre del fantastico come Tanith Lee e Alice Bradley (in arte James Tiptree Jr.) quanto scrittrici ancora poco conosciute in Italia come l’argentina Angelica Gorodischer, la finlandese Leena Krohn e l’indiana Vandana Singh. A curare l’antologia, la coppia simbolo della rinascita weird anni 2000: Ann e Jeff VanderMeer. La prima, già direttrice della leggendaria rivista Weird Tales; il secondo, autore tra le altre cose della fortunata Trilogia dell’Area X.

You are about to embark on a journey that will take you from the beginning of time to its very end. Reality will be warped, wormholes and rifts will pull you into strange and terrifying futures, maroon you in distant, hostile pasts and threaten – beware the Butterfly Effect! – to transform the era from whence you came forever. The Time Traveller's Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, here is over a century's worth of literary travels into both past and future. Including stories from Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, George R.R. Martin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock and, of course, H.G. Wells, here are beloved classics and cutting-edge contemporary examples of the genre. Because, the truth is, fiction is the most effective time travel machine in the universe and always has been.

27 fiction, 4 non-fiction entries imagine technology in Victorian era and philosophize on influences. Intro, bios, notes. Fiction “Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil” by Carrie Vaughn “Addison Howell and the Clockroach” by Cherie Priest “On Wooden Wings” by Paolo Chikiamco “Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham” by Lev Grossman “The Heart Is the Matter” by Malissa Kent “Mother Is a Machine” by Catherynne M. Valente “Possession” by Ben Peek “Beatrice” by Karin Tidbeck “Arbeitskraft” by Nick Mamatas “Study, for Solo Piano” by Genevieve Valentine “Beside Calais” by Samantha Henderson “An Exhortation to Young Writers (Advice Tendered by Poor Mojo’s Giant Squid)” by David Erik Nelson, Morgan Johnson, and Fritz Swanson “A Handful of Rice” by Vandana Singh “Fixing Hanover” by Jeff VanderMeer “Salvage” by Margaret Ronald “Urban Drift” by Andrew Knighton “Ascension” by Leow Hui Min Annabeth “Nowhere Fast” by Christopher Rowe “The Effluent Engine” by N. K. Jemisin “To Follow the Waves” by Amal El-Mohtar “Captain Bells & the Sovereign State of Discordia” by JY Yang “The Seventh Expression of the Robot General” by Jeffrey Ford “The Stoker Memorandum” by Lavie Tidhar “Smoke City” by Christopher Barzak “Goggles (c.1910)” by Caitlín R. Kiernan “Peace in Our Time” by Garth Nix “White Fungus” by Bruce Sterling Nonfiction “Winding Down the House: Towards a Steampunk Without Steam” by Amal El-Mohtar “Steampunk Shapes Our Future” by Margaret Killjoy “From Airships of Imagination to Feet on the Ground” by Jaymee Goh “The (R)Evolution of Steampunk” by Austin Sirkin

From the fairy tales we first heard as children, fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight--on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the dark trees of the forest. Other worlds, talking animals, fairies, goblins, demons, tricksters, and mystics: these are the elements that populate a rich literary tradition that spans the globe. In this collection, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer explore the stories that shaped our modern idea of "fantasy." There are the expected pillars of the genre: the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, Nikolai Gogol, Franz Kafka, L. Frank Baum, Robert E. Howard, and J. R. R. Tolkien. But it's the unexpected treasures from Asian, Eastern European, Scandinavian, and Native American traditions--including fourteen stories never before available in English--that show that the urge to imagine surreal circumstances, bizarre creatures, and strange new worlds is truly a universal phenomenon.

Blending the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with modern scientific advances, the popular Steampunk genre spotlighted in this collection is innovative and stimulates the imagination. This artfully assembled anthology of original fiction, nonfiction, and art can serve as an introduction to the Steampunk culture or provide dedicated fans with more fuel. Stories of outlandishly imaginative technologies, clockwork contraptions, eccentric heroines, and mad scientists are complemented by canon-defining nonfiction and an array of original illustrations. This collection showcases the most sensational Steampunk talents of the last decade, including Daniel Abraham, John Coulthart, William Gibson, and Margo Lanagan, and demonstrates exactly why the future of the past is so excitingly new. Contents Introduction: “What Is Steampunk?” by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer “The Cast Iron Kid” by Andrew Knighton “The Steam Dancer (1896)” by Caitlín R. Kiernan “The Anachronist’s Cookbook” by Catherynne M. Valente “Tanglefoot” by Cherie Priest “O One” by Chris Roberson “Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor’s Vengeance” by Daniel Abraham “The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond” by David Erik Nelson “The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday” by Geoffery D. Falksen “At the Intersection of Technology and Romance” by Jake von Slatt “The Future of Steampunk: A Roundtable Interview” by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer “Dr. Lash Remembers” by Jeffrey Ford “Lost Pages From The Encyclopdia of Victoriana” by Jess Nevins “As Recorded on Brass Cylinders: Adagio for Two Dancers” by Lisa Mantchev “A Serpent in the Gears” by Margaret Ronald “Machine Maid” by Margo Lanagan “Which Is Mightier, the Pen or the Parasol?” by Gail Carriger “The Unbecoming of Virgil Smythe” by Ramsey Shehadeh “Wild Copper” by Samantha Henderson “The Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar” by Shweta Narayan “The Unblinking Eye” by Stephen Baxter “Lovelace & Babbage” by Sydney Padua “The Persecution Machine” by Tanith Lee “Flying Fish (Prometheus)” by Vilhelm Bergsøe “The Gernsback Continuum” by William Gibson

Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time - past, present and future. What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E. Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut, alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, you'll find beloved worlds of space opera, hard SF, cyberpunk, the New Wave, and more. Learn about the secret history of science fiction, from titans of literature who also wrote SF to less well-known authors from more than twenty-five countries, some never before translated into English. In The Big Book of Science Fiction, literary power couple Ann and Jeff VanderMeer transport readers from Mars to Mechanopolis, planet Earth to parts unknown. Immerse yourself in the genre that predicted electric cars, space tourism, and smartphones. Sit back, buckle up, and dial in the coordinates, as this stellar anthology has got worlds within worlds. Including: . Legendary tales from Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin. An unearthed sci-fi story from W. E. B. Du Bois. The first publication in twenty years of the work of cybernetic visionary David R. Bunch. A rare and brilliant novella by Chinese international sensation Cixin Liu Plus: . Aliens!. Space battles!. Robots!. Technology gone wrong!. Technology gone right!"