Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction, fantasy, and horror have been transforming those genres into something all but unrecognizable. In Conjunctions' game-changing New Wave Fabulists issue, guest editor Peter Straub has put together an anthology of innovative literary reinventions of traditional "pulp" forms. Contributors range from Jonathan Lethem to Neil Gaiman, from John Crowley to Kelly Link, from Elizabeth Hand to China Miéville. Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute contribute essays on the ongoing evolution of genre, while the brilliant cartoonist Gahan Wilson has created the cover and original frontispieces for each story.
"Eighteen big-name authors at the respective tops of their games, along with two of the field's most essential critics . . . brilliantly map out a certain territory where mimesis breeds with surrealism, encouraged by postmodern imaginations and chaperoned by immaculate prose. There's not a drab or dull tale in the book, and in fact this volume is so rich it demands unhurried consumption."
The Washington Post
"The eighteen stories . . . show both the range and common traits of what Peter Straub seems to value in fantastic literature. All are unfailingly well-written and eschew the themes and plots popularly associated with modern fantasy."
