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ODD? [Kindle Edition]

Jeff VanderMeer , Ann VanderMeer
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ODD?, a new anthology series devoted to eclectic fiction, usually with a fantastical, horrific, magic realist, or surrealist approach. You might also call it strange or even weird. But as the subtitle of “Is it odd or are you too normal?” suggests, “odd” is a truly subjective evaluation. One person’s “what the heck?!” is another person’s “eh—saw that yesterday.”

Each volume will contain reprints (some of them not available otherwise except in expensive limited editions), previously unpublished stories, and new translations of classic and hard-to-find stories. We are committed to bringing you odd material from all over the world, from the past one hundred years, all of it bound together simply by dint of being idiosyncratic, unusual, out-of-the-ordinary.

Here's the full table of contents:

Ann & Jeff VanderMeer - Introduction
Amos Tutuola - "The Dead Babies"
Gustave Le Rouge - "The War of the Vampires" (translation by Brian Evenson and David Beus)
Jeffrey Ford - "Weiroot"
Leopoldo Lugones - "The Bloat Toad" (translation by Larry Nolen)
Mark Samuels - "Apt 205"
Michael Cisco - "Modern Cities Exist Only to Be Destroyed"
Nalo Hopkinson - "Slow Cold Chick"
Sumanth Prabhaker - "A Hard Truth About Waste Management"
Hiromi Goto - "Stinky Girl"
Eric Basso - "Logues"
Edward Morris - "Lotophagi"
Karin Tidbeck - "The Aunts"
Jeffrey Thomas - "The Fork"
Rikki Ducornet - "The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi”
Leena Krohn – “The Night of the Normal Distribution Curve” (translation by Anna Volmari and J. Robert Tupasela)
Amanda le Bas de Plumetot - "Unmaking"
Karl Hans Strobl - "The Head" (translation by Gio Clairval)
Caitlin R. Kiernan - "A Child's Guide to the Hollow Hills"
Stacey Levine - "Sausage"
Danny Fontaine & Jeff VanderMeer – “Myster Odd Theme Song”

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  • File Size: 466 KB
  • Print Length: 185 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: Cheeky Frawg (October 9, 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005UEL2XK
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #350,209 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5.0 out of 5 stars ODD? Yes, and rightly so. March 29, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
Jeff & Ann have been doing innovative anthologies for a while now. I read the fantastic 'The New Weird' a few years ago, 'The Weird' Released a few months ago, they have also released 'Steampunk' I & II which I haven't read but have heard are very good. Each Vandermeer anthology pushes me in new directions, away from generic/cliche fiction into the unknown worlds of literature, experienced in a way I haven't experienced them before. If you are familiar with the Vandermeer's work, and Jeff's website/blog jeffvandermeer.com you really have to admire the amount of energy and passion the Vandermeers put into pushing genre boundaries and trying to expand the ideas people have of what spec fiction actually is.

I really enjoyed ODD?, it was a plunge into the unknown from the outset, and most of the stories in it are both unusually in form, and have a kind of atmospheric tang to them, a flavour that makes you remember, later on, where you were when you first read it, and what you were doing at that exact time.

Each story stands on it's own, and usually stands very well. On the whole there is something sinister, or slightly 'off' about the stories in this anthology, which I love and find intriguing. I look forward to Volume II of ODD?!

Highly recommended if you are bored with what you have been reading and want to experiment with a whole new world/flavour of fiction, well written, outstanding, weird, uncomfortable, often with dark/frightening ideas mixed with strange humour. Or if you just have a taste for the unusual.
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