The End is Weird. In the event of cosmic fallout, it is vital that you adhere to the following: Secure your own persona, and a backup if available. A neighbor’s is acceptable. Your skin may attempt to abscond. This is normal in these situations. Do not panic. Ignore all notifications from your mobile devices. They are not to be trusted. Pay no mind to the details of that photograph. Yes, that one. Should your body accrue any additional limbs, please keep proper inventory; they will need to be accounted for. Avoid celebrity advice. Do not feed the bears. You will feel dizzy. You will feel nausea. Do not panic. This will pass. Do not panic. This will not pass. Step bravely. Do not panic. BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror, Volume One, encompasses the finest Weird fiction previously published in 2022. Edited by Alex Woodroe. Table of Contents: Banhus—M.E. Bronstein User Warning—Charlotte Ariel Finn The Bear Across the Way—Emily Rigole En el Patio de la Casa del Callejón—Tania Chen In Haskins—Carson Winter The Imperfection—Mae Murray Blame—Warren Bennedetto Low Tide Jenny—Bitter Karella Machine (r)Evolution—Colleen Anderson Skin—Isha Karki Eat Your Colors—Sonora Taylor Paradise—Sloane Leong There is No Easy Way Towards Earth—jonah wu Notes on the Forum of the Simulacra—Cadwell Turnbull Blood Calumny—Joe Koch Lemmings—Kirstyn McDermott Water Goes, Sand Remains—Jolie Toomajan The Mules—Jennifer Jeanne McArdle Stage Five Clinger—Nikki R. Leigh The Day When the Last War is Over—Sergey Gerasimov Mother; Microbes—H.V. Patterson The Mythologization of Tymber Prescott in Five Selected Photos—Luciano Marano

The World is Weird. You will be discouraged from participating in it. However, your participation is not optional. Zip up your human suit and set sail, imbibing every perspective you can in order to perfect the persona. Push to the outer edges. Document your travels, and forget to return. There will be a test. Learn what it means to be human. Forget what it means to be human. Learn what it means to be human. Forget what it means to be human. Do not panic. BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror, Volume Two encompasses the finest Weird speculative fiction published in (roughly) 2023. Edited by Alex Woodroe. Table of contents: Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas - Lullaby for the Unseen Thomas Ha - In That Crumbling Home Hussani Abdulrahim - The Library Virus Patrick Malka - Show Me Eirik Gumeny - A Balanced Breakfast David Simmons - Food is Poison Premee Mohamed - Quietus Perfect Kiss Strickoll - punctum (o baked alaska for you i am a former american) LC von Hessen - Transmasc of the Red Death Simone le Roux - The Man Outside KS Walker - River Bargain Baby M.M. Olivas - The Prince of Oakland Amitha Jagannath Knight - My Mother, The Exoskeleton Rachael K. Jones - The Sound of Children Screaming Judith Shadford - Endless Yearning Daniel DeRock - Guest Opinion: We must take action regarding the [REDACTED] High School janitor Geneve Flynn - A Box of Hair and Nail Anemone Moss - Everything You Dump Here Ends Up in the Ocean Karlo Yeager Rodríguez - Up In the Hills, She Dreams of Her Daughter Deep In the Ground Elena Sichrovsky - Embryo Ivan Zoric - Our Roots Will Dry Out in the End Michael Bettendorf - As the Music Plays Groovy Chris Kuriata - Family Not Going To Heaven

A fourteen-year-old trying to find her way in the world, Doreen is as much an outcast at school as she is at home. Marginalized by her peers, misunderstood by her parents, and mourning the loss of her older brother who disappeared when she was just a child, Doreen finds solace in her fierce love of music and in her best friend, Ted. But when her older sister begins dating a bewildering twenty-one-year-old named Matthew, Doreen must confront feelings she never knew she possessed. Forced into adulthood kicking and screaming (not to mention swearing), Doreen ultimately impels her troubled family to forge a new understanding of the world -- and, maybe more surprisingly, of one another. High school is bad enough; it's worse when you have only one friend in the world and a family that just doesn't get it. This breathless coming-of-age novel explores the alienation of adolescence and introduces a bold and shimmering new voice in fiction.

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The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years. Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganises historical coverage of the genre to emphasise new geographical areas of cultural production and the growing importance of media beyond print. It also updates and expands the range of frameworks that are relevant to the study of science fiction. The periodisation has been reframed to include new chapters focusing on science fiction produced outside the Anglophone context, including South Asian, Latin American, Chinese and African diasporic science fiction. The contributors use both well- established critical and theoretical approaches and embrace a range of new ones, including biopolitics, climate crisis, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, energy humanities, game studies, medical humanities, new materialisms and sonic studies. This book is an invaluable resource for students and established scholars seeking to understand the vast range of engagements with science fiction in scholarship today.

This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman studies in relation to Anglophone novels. It illuminates the variety of nonhuman actors that take centre stage in the twenty-first-century novel and the formal changes that the Anthropocene, the digital turn, the animal rights movement, and research into plant consciousness have brought to the novel as a form. The book is divided into four sections, each focusing on a different aspect of twenty-first-century literature that engages with the nonhuman. The collection investigates how the environmental changes and the increasing use of AI technologies have fostered the flourishing of genres like the New Weird, Climate Fiction, and speculative fiction, how it makes us embrace new perceptions of life in relation to genetic engineering, and how it forces us to engage with newly emerging political contexts.

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