1. Fundamentals
(Not that I have read these all yet, just that they seem definitional)
Interstitial fiction
Interfictions anthology (Eds: Theodora Goss and Delia Sherman; Interfictions 2 is eds. Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak)
Slipstream
Feeling Very Strange anthology (Eds: James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel)
New Weird
New Weird anthology (Eds: Ann and Jeff Vandermeer)
Probably also Jeff's City of Saints and Madmen
The Leviathan anthology series
Cross-genre fiction in general
Polyphony anthology series (Wheatland press), Volume 6 edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake.
2. Other recommendations
some snagged from the list below, not in any particular order, just whatever I know well enough to agree with, or you guys specifically flag as belonging in post #1:
Paper Cities anthology (Ed Ekaterina Sedia), though I wasn't entirely taken with it, definitely breaks open the borders of urban fantasy.
LCRW's best-of anthologyhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/0345499131/?tag=absolutewritedm-20.
As Cranky points out below, 100 years of solitude. It may not be any of the things we're doing now but it's influenced many or most of them, hasn't it?
Castle Waiting by Linda Medley.
In The Forest of Forgetting, by Theodora Goss
The Orphan's Tales books by Cathrynne M. Valente
<more to come>
Recommended writers:
JG Ballard
Jasper Fforde
Theodora Goss
China Mieville
Delia Sherman (especially her books for grownups)
Jeff Vandermeer
(Not that I have read these all yet, just that they seem definitional)
Interstitial fiction
Interfictions anthology (Eds: Theodora Goss and Delia Sherman; Interfictions 2 is eds. Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak)
Slipstream
Feeling Very Strange anthology (Eds: James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel)
New Weird
New Weird anthology (Eds: Ann and Jeff Vandermeer)
Probably also Jeff's City of Saints and Madmen
The Leviathan anthology series
Cross-genre fiction in general
Polyphony anthology series (Wheatland press), Volume 6 edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake.
2. Other recommendations
some snagged from the list below, not in any particular order, just whatever I know well enough to agree with, or you guys specifically flag as belonging in post #1:
Paper Cities anthology (Ed Ekaterina Sedia), though I wasn't entirely taken with it, definitely breaks open the borders of urban fantasy.
LCRW's best-of anthologyhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/0345499131/?tag=absolutewritedm-20.
As Cranky points out below, 100 years of solitude. It may not be any of the things we're doing now but it's influenced many or most of them, hasn't it?
Castle Waiting by Linda Medley.
In The Forest of Forgetting, by Theodora Goss
The Orphan's Tales books by Cathrynne M. Valente
<more to come>
Recommended writers:
JG Ballard
Jasper Fforde
Theodora Goss
China Mieville
Delia Sherman (especially her books for grownups)
Jeff Vandermeer
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