The New Weird is a literary genre that emerged in the 1990s through the early 2000s, combining characteristics of weird fiction with other speculative fiction subgenres. M. John Harrison is credited with coining the term in his introduction to the 2002 anthology The Tain. Its writers are mostly novelists associated with horror or speculative fiction who frequently cross genre boundaries, among them K. J. Bishop, Paul Di Filippo, Jeffrey Ford, Storm Constantine, China Mieville, Alastair Reynolds, Justina Robson, Steph Swainston, Mary Gentle, Alistair Rennie, Michael Cisco, Jeff VanderMeer and Harrison himself.
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Place of OriginUnited Kingdom; M. John Harrison is credited with coining the term "New Weird" in his 2002 introduction to The Tain. 1 Notable ExampleChina Miéville's Perdido Street Station (2000), whose critical and commercial success brought New Weird fiction into mainstream consciousness. 1 Defining TraitA literary genre, emerging in the 1990s through the early 2000s, that combines characteristics of weird fiction with other speculative fiction subgenres. 1 Connections
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1. New Weird (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLead section
The new weird is a literary genre that emerged in the 1990s through early 2000s with characteristics of weird fiction and other speculative fiction subgenres.
'History' section
The 2000 release of China Miéville's Perdido Street Station marked the entry of what would later be called New Weird fiction into mainstream consciousness with its critical and commercial success.
Lead section, second sentence
M. John Harrison is credited with creating the term "New Weird" in the introduction to The Tain in 2002.
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