Shriek: An Afterword
10 best books like Shriek: An Afterword (Jeff VanderMeer): Iron Council, The Etched City, Viriconium, The Year of Our War, Thunderer, The New Weird, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Troika, The Divinity Student, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345458427 |
Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later.
It is a...
| Author | K.J. Bishop |
| ISBN | 0553382918 |
Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the north, a loner, a survivor . . . a killer. Raule is a wandering surgeon, a healer who still believes in just--and lost--causes. Bound by a desire to escape the ghosts...
| Author | M. John Harrison |
| ISBN | 0553383159 |
This landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light.
Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre and enthralled a generation of readers: The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, In Viriconium,...
| Author | Steph Swainston |
| ISBN | 0060753870 |
Unique among his fellow immortals and mortal folk alike, Jant Comet can fly. His talent is a gift and a curse that has earned him a place in the Castle Circle as Messenger to the Emperor San -- soaring high and free above the bloody battlefields of his world, carrying word back to his master of progress and...
| Author | Felix Gilman |
| ISBN | 0553806769 |
In this breathtaking debut novel by Felix Gilman, one man embarks on a thrilling and treacherous quest for his people’s lost god—in an elaborate Dickensian city that is either blessed …or haunted.
Arjun arrives in Ararat just as a magnificent winged creature swoops and sails over...
| Author | Ann VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 1892391554 |
This avant-garde anthology that presents and defines the New Weird—a hip, stylistic fiction that evokes the gritty exuberance of pulp novels and dime-store comic books—creates a new literature that is entirely unprecedented and utterly compelling. Assembling an array of talent, this collection...
| Author | Jeffrey Ford |
| ISBN | 0060936177 |
A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque tells the story of portraitist Piero Piambo, who is offered a commission unlike any other. The client is Mrs. Charbuque, a wealthy and elusive woman who asks Piambo to paint her portrait, though with one bizarre twist: he may question...
| Author | Stepan Chapman |
| ISBN | 1890464023 |
Beneath the glare of three purple suns, three travelers - an old Mexican woman, an automated jeep, and a brontosaurus - have trudged across a desert for hundreds of years. They do not know if the desert has an end, and if it does, what they might find there. Sometimes they come across perfectly-preserved...
Short but powerful, this neo-gothic novel, which is illustrated by Harry O. Morris, uses the crisp immediacy of the present tense to lead the reader on a hallucinatory journey from humanity to inhuman transcendence. After a miraculous recovery from near death, a young man known only as the Divinity...
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
| Author | James Patrick Kelly |
If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day. We have unprecedented access to information; cognitive dissonance is a banner headline in our morning papers...
Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists
| Author | Bradford Morrow |
| ISBN | 0941964558 |
For perhaps two decades, a small group of writers rooted in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror have been simultaneously exploring and erasing the boundaries of those genres by creating fiction of remarkable depth and power. Their connections to the genres they have been radically redefining...
| Author | Hal Duncan |
| ISBN | 1932265252 |
Hal Duncan has quite a unique writing style, but once you are used to it his approach does give the story a real rhythm. And what a story it is: four characters die and go to hell - a broken down, media obsessed, nightmarishly bureaucratic version of New York.
They meet and, guns blazing, they make...
