Recommend me weird fiction books, please!

a month ago by Atomo to c/books

Enjoy weird fiction overall, sci-fi and "horror" (in a very general sense). I like some Lovecraft, VanderMeers, Ballard, China Miéville, Samanta Schweblin, late William Gibson, Mariana Enríquez... what recent books or writers caught your eye that may loosely fit the term or are similar to works of the above authors? Can be in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

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karlhungus 6 points a month ago

Kelly Link's short stories are weird

The first story is often not that weird, but she is fantastic at magical realism. They aren't scary though. I recall for instance one story being about a cannon.

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atomo 2 points a month ago

someone mentioned Kelly Link to me the other day as "essential" ... i'll surely be looking it.

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karlhungus 3 points a month ago

The first story in magic for beginners (the one about the library, i think it's the title story) is one of my favourite stories ever.

Since i mentioned short stories, If you like short stories get your hands on all the Ted Chiang you can (not anything like kelly link, but I think of him as the Chopin of short sci-fi.

Since i'm on a roll you may like "there is no antimemetics division" which is a little horror-sih may also be up your alley.

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atomo 1 point a month ago

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