I came about this through reading Arthur C. Clarke's obituary on Locus Online. After I read that, I was browsing through the lists of recent books and came across a fantasy anthology entitled The New Weird--which is actually named after a subgenre that's really about crossing genres. Sort of like slipstream and magic realism except there's more vigorous mixing between the science fiction, fantasy, and horror before the edging out towards literary. I already had a vague idea of what New Weird was, but I went digging around and found an interesting discussion from 2003 about it (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5). Anyways, can you even imagine a bookstore dedicating a section to New Weird? Or maybe it would be more amusing if it was just labeled "Weird Stuff." How awesome would it be to respond to a question about your favorite genre by just saying, "I like Weird Stuff!"
