What does it take to get knighted for your services to literature? For fantasy writer and satirist Sir Terry Pratchett, the answer is a body of work that also earned him the Carnegie Medal, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. Pratchett is …
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It shouldn’t be surprising that ‘new weird’ fiction has a relationship to ‘weird’ fiction. In fact, it has a relationship with many other subgenres, including ‘bizarro’ fiction and ‘slipstream’ writing.
Pulp writing takes its name from the pulp magazines in which it appeared, and those magazines take their name from the cheap wood pulp paper on which they were printed.
For a certain type of reader, a book that includes a map of its setting is catnip. For these readers, your blurb, your title, and your cover are secondary concerns: the map’s the thing, and you had them as soon as they saw it.
