media

I see people ask this so often it makes me think I need a list so we can trade easily. There are such very different kinds of cosmic and reality-bender and New Weird, and it's all pretty overlappy and subjective. Books that spring to mind for me as sharing a certain something.

January

• The Language of Power by Rosemary Kirstein
• Imaginary Places ed. Robin McKinley
• Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
• A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly
• Fairy Tale by Stephen King
• Bound by Iron (Eberron) by Edward Bolme
• The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw

January

• Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster
• The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
• The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due