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Tag: The Weird
Weird #63: “The Discovery of Telenapota” by Premendra Mitra (1984)
A weird emanation of energy straight out of Blue Man Group, the "blue bodies" are doubles that haunt the narrator of "The New Rays."
Weird #62: “The New Rays” by M. John Harrison (1982)
A weird emanation of energy straight out of Blue Man Group, the "blue bodies" are doubles that haunt the narrator of "The New Rays."
Weird #60: “Egnaro” by M. John Harrison (1981)
M. John Harrison was part of the New Wave, a literary movement that, according to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, introduced Mainstream fiction techniques into the “straightjacket” of mass produced science fiction. The literary values of the movement, which increasingly drew from the soft sciences rather than hard sciences, can be identified with the kind …
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Weird #59: “The Belonging Kind” by William Gibson and John Shirley (1981)
Antoinette walks from bar to bar around town, everywhere from clubs to discos, and never wears the same body twice.
Weird #58: “The Autopsy” by Michael Shea (1980)
In which a doctor, examining a corpse in anatomically precise detail, discovers a parasite from outer space animating a human corpse.
Weird #57: “The Brood” by Ramsay Campbell (1980)
A man looks out his window after a tough day at work and notices something he shouldn't.
Weird #56: “Window” by Bob Leman (1980)
A window into another dimensions opens up a nostalgic view of another world, but not is all as it seems.
Weird #55: “Sandkings” by George R. R. Martin (1979)
An animal rights abuser gets his just deserts
Weird #54: “My Mother” by Jamaica Kincaid (1977)
A surrealist story about a mother and a daughter who undergo transformation
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