I’ve written an introduction to the New Weird and experimental SF for the Guardian book blog.
When M John Harrison started the debate that would crystallise definitions of the term “New Weird” in 2003, much of the creative energy that had driven the movement had already moved on. As editor Jeff VanderMeer says in his introduction to the first comprehensive anthology of the movement, the New Weird is dead. Long live the Next Weird.
New weird sounds great…checking out more of this now…