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Literary spins on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres--from Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Miéville, and many more. Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction, fantasy, and horror have been transforming those genres into something all but unrecognizable. In Conjunctions' game-changing New Wave Fabulists issue, guest editor Peter Straub has put together an anthology of innovative literary reinventions of traditional "pulp" forms. Contributors range from Jonathan Lethem to Neil Gaiman, from John Crowley to Kelly Link, from Elizabeth Hand to China Miéville. Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute contribute essays on the ongoing evolution of genre, while the brilliant cartoonist Gahan Wilson has created the cover and original frontispieces for each story.… (más)
The best of these are wonderful. The least of them? Well, as Mr. Gaiman says near the end of his: "It was a story," said December. "I'll say that for it." ( )
I've been plugging away at this one for a while now, because the stories in here are just plain long. I really like Poe's definition of the short story--something you can read in one sitting--and a lot of what's here just doesn't qualify. That said, most of what's here is very good (the contributors list is a veritable Who's Who of my bookcases), so on balance, worth a read. But don't expect it to fly by. ( )
Literary spins on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres--from Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Miéville, and many more. Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction, fantasy, and horror have been transforming those genres into something all but unrecognizable. In Conjunctions' game-changing New Wave Fabulists issue, guest editor Peter Straub has put together an anthology of innovative literary reinventions of traditional "pulp" forms. Contributors range from Jonathan Lethem to Neil Gaiman, from John Crowley to Kelly Link, from Elizabeth Hand to China Miéville. Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute contribute essays on the ongoing evolution of genre, while the brilliant cartoonist Gahan Wilson has created the cover and original frontispieces for each story.
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"It was a story," said December. "I'll say that for it." (