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    <body><![CDATA[This may be the best collection I've read in a decade.<br/><br/>I'd been through Mieville and Vandermeer, cut my teeth on Lovecraft, a pile of slipstream, Barker, but I didn't feel as though I had much of a handle on what &quot;New Weird&quot; was or why I was drawn to it. Boy, I loved every story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17567716">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So far this anthology has some very interesting and disturbing stories in it. But here's the most disturbing thing: there are no significant women characters. None. There's even a story of a pair of lovers traveling through eastern Europe but, guess what? They are both MEN. What is up with that?<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68538580">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like the book as a project but the stories in the book were not always very memorable.  I liked them while I read them and I am glad that I read them but they were a mixed bag.  Again, not mixed in terms of uneven quality because they all were very well-written.  Just some of the stories didn't do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41422675">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If anything, this anthology demonstrates that &quot;New Weird&quot; is under-defined to the point of uselessness.  While there are a couple of very striking pieces that are both well-done and stylistically similar to China Mieville's Bas Lag stories, others are so far afield as to raise the question...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41212619">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve been reading The New Weird lately, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer’s recent Tachyon collection of the sort of bizarre, visceral, urban fantasy that’s had the placard card reading “New Weird” hung about its neck for the past few years.<br/><br/>If anything, this collection seems a younger si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35657742">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoy Lovecraft, Mieville, pulp sci-fi, so I thought I would love this volume and was eagerly awaiting its publication.  Alas, I am somewhat disappointed.  Though I appreciate (on an intellectual level) the tortuous hand-wringing that accompanies the authors' attempts to define or simply talk abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19196668">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried to read the whole anthology, I really did. However, I found the introduction to be less educational than condecending. I attempted to start several stories, but could finish none but China Mieville's <em>Jack</em> [which was the story that drew my attention to the anthology in the first place]. Perha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41644909">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Every single short story in this book was terrific.  I had read both the China Mieville story &quot;Jack&quot;(in his excellent book of short fiction, &quot;Looking for Jake&quot;) and Jeffrey Ford story &quot;At Reparata&quot; before, but everything else was new to me.  Each story was breathtakingl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16167027">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've posted the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mentatjack.com/2009/05/31/reading-th-new-weird/">recommended reading list</a> from this on my blog.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I totally love this book!!! It introduced me to a genre that is part fantasy, part sci-fi, part mystery and a bunch of other stuff. It was just what I was looking for! Some of the stories make me want to hunt down everything that author ever wrote and some of them are enough as a part of this anthol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41298702">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. The introduction was overly scholarly in its attempt to explain and define what the editor considers a new genre, or perhaps a sub-genre where science fiction, fantasy, and horror intersect with a post-cyberpunk sensibility. I think. As for the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28447738">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely was enthralled with Clive Barker's story, but some of these are just so-so.  Between &quot;Steampunk&quot; and this one, I liked &quot;Steampunk&quot; much better.  I'll do a better review when I'm home and have the book in front of me, because a few of the stories were amazing and I wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28996576">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[OOOH LOOK IT IS SOMETHING STRANGE AND NOBODY WILL SAY WHAT IT IS FOR.<br/><br/>If you like Lovecraft, probably you'll like this.<br/><br/>I lose several million nerd points, but I thought Lovecraft was pretty boring. <br/><br/>I lose several million human being points, but I only read about tw...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Caught my attention by focusing on the titular SF literary movement. A lot of good writers in the collection: China Mieville, Clive Barker, Michael Moorcock, etc. However, typical anthology disclaimer: stories can be hit or miss. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't done a review yet on this site but this book is that good.  Fresh unique voices without the normal bounds of tried and boring genres.  Even the essays contained within it are intriguing.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The New Weird by Ann VanderMeer (2008)]]></body>
    
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