tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post3794437159948474786..comments2023-09-05T08:38:04.858+01:00Comments on Rameau's Nephew: Year's Best Weird Fiction - Side CommentsNemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-9383988473133349582014-11-29T10:45:56.133+00:002014-11-29T10:45:56.133+00:00From discussion here: HERE
There seem to be two ...From discussion here: <a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/All_Hallows/conversations/topics/80947?reverse=1" rel="nofollow">HERE</a><br /><br /><br />There seem to be two separate points here:<br /><br /><br />(1) Whether this book represents the 'best' weird fiction first published in 2013. This comes down to editorial taste and opportunity to read all potential candidates. I think there are at least a few potential candidate stories (not featured in this book) that are, for me, unquestionably, all time great Weird Fiction, and given the opportunity to read them, they could not possibly be passed over for a Year's Best. IMO.<br /><br /><br />(2) The definition of 'Weird Fiction'. From the views I've seen, it is probably too broad brush to mean anything, i.e. covering Horror, Ghost Story, SF, Steampunk, Fantasy, some Literary and Absurd. All my life, I thought I could smell and taste a Weird Fiction story but there are many in this book that don't have that smell or taste for me. It has become more an Interstitial genre? Having said that, this is a good anthology, one with an organic quality despite or because of its wide-ranging genres and styles, and if the only way to bring this anthology into existence was to call it 'Year's Best Weird Fiction', so be it.<br />Nemonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-11582797861649560122014-11-26T07:41:17.894+00:002014-11-26T07:41:17.894+00:00Add Ana-Kai-Tangata by Scott Nicolay
(Delete '...Add Ana-Kai-Tangata by Scott Nicolay<br />(Delete 'The Hound' as too old to be modern - forgot it was there!)Nemonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-9516432402021675622014-11-26T07:37:49.711+00:002014-11-26T07:37:49.711+00:00My modern choices for an all time favourite Weird ...My modern choices for an all time favourite Weird Fiction anthology:<br /><br />The Hound - HP Lovecraft<br />Flowers of the Sea - Reggie Oliver<br />The Bellman - Colin Insole<br />Nights at the Regal - Jason Gould<br />Dying In The Arms of Jean Harlow - Paul Meloy<br />Shallows - John Langan<br />The Sleep Mask - Joel Lane<br />The Rape of Knots - Rhys Hughes<br />Cyprian's Room - Frances Oliver<br />People on the Island - T.M.Wright<br />A House by the Ocean - Steve Rasnic Tem<br />Sleepers - Christopher Harman<br />Sado-ga-Shima - Quentin S Crisp<br />The Good Husband - Nathan Ballingrud<br />The Vanishing Life and Films of Emmanuel Escobada - AnonymousNemonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com