Ann & Jeff Vandermeer announce New Weird anthology

File the following under 'Eagerly Anticipated'; heads-up via the ever-vigilant Joe Gordon (who, dammit, gets paid to surf t'Internet and find post new stuff on the FP Blog all day, which is why he always seems to find this stuff out first...)

'The New Weird' ed. by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer The New Weird is a forthcoming anthology to be edited by Ann and Ann Vandermeer, is tentatively scheduled for publication in Spring 2008 by Tachyon Publications, and has cover art from the folks at Insect Lab. It brings together the cream of the writers whose work - often through no fault of its own it should probably be noted - have come to be labelled as 'New Weird' since the terms started being bandied around in 2001 or so.

Feast your eyes on the contributors' list: Michael Moorcock, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Jeffrey Ford, Hal Duncan, Jay Lake, K.J. Bishop, Kathe Koja, Leena Krohn, Felix Gilman, Sarah Monette, Steph Swainston and Conrad Williams... and those are just the names (that you can't quite make out on the cover image there) that have been announced so far. There's more to come...

More info on the genesis of the project (plus a handy mini-FAQ to head off the automatic nay-sayers) over at Jeff's blog. And I've dropped the man himself a line to see if he and / or Ann might have time for a few questions for a UKSFBN news piece, so hopefully I'll be able to post that later on.