New Weird

The term New Weird indicates a trend or flow in the works of some modern writers fantastic literature. It is mostly about novelists who are at home in the genres of science fiction or speculative fiction. The term is no fixed group is meant by authors: There is no common manifesto, the spectrum of style and content is great, and the intentioned authors do not see themselves as part of a "movement ". New Weird is rather a term that was invented by literary critics to describe one of them perceived tendency in a significant amount of literary texts. Among the authors that you can assign loose this flow include Steven Cockayne, M. John Harrison, China Miéville, Alastair Reynolds, Justina Robson and Steph Swainston.

Disagreement with the New Weird is that literature should the genre in which he resides transcend, and that it is therefore not only acceptable but even desirable is when authors blur the boundaries between genres in their texts. Many texts, which could be described as " New Weird ", therefore contain elements of several genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy and horror, with their weighting varies with the individual authors. "The serendipitous constellation of contemporary fantasy writers did belong to or generate the 'new weird ' SEEM gene rally and in varying proportions to blend the Influences of genre writing and literary fantasy, and to weave in non -fantastic signal as well. " (Michael Cisco )

Critics of the New Weird note that the boundaries between genres quite have their reasons, and that the traditional genre distinctions be based on what types can best combine ideas in a text. Proponents speculate that the New Weird in the future take on the role of the former leading cyber punks and could become an important part of the current literature.