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This connection occured to me as I scoured Ann and Jeff Vandermeer's magisterial Weird anthology for a tale that was genuinely frightening.
This week in the roundup: Star Wars; a New York-centric indie comic; a tech-obsessed reintroduction to a great DC hero; and a wonderfully weird anthology.
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| March 15-17 at 8 and March 18 at 5: "The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music" (2006, Rani Singh).
Her drawings have also leapt to life on book covers, in a comic anthology about weird sex, and two personal zines published by Valley Cruise Press.
He writes in the genre — his 2009 novel "Finch" is a detective story, reminiscent of "Blade Runner," set in a city divided between normal people and mushroom people — and he champions it: with his wife, the influential sci-fi and fantasy editor Ann VanderMeer, he's edited the anthologies "The Weird" and "The New Weird".
It comes less than a year after the publication of The Weird by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, a landmark anthology that helped to define the weird as a significant literary tradition with well over a century of history.
The first trailer for "Weird City," a sci-fi anthology series with an absolutely amazing cast, dropped today.
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Although we have invited Jeff primarily as a creative artist, it's also worth noting that he's no slouch on this latter subject, having co-edited a number of highly respected SF anthologies such as The Weird.
It's weird to think about episodes of an anthology series being sequenced in a specific way.
As Ian Bogost, the director of the graduate program in digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology, puts it in a new academic anthology, "Sports Videogames" (Routledge), "Sports are weird and hard to pin down even before video games enter the picture".
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