A review by hannah_fox
The New Weird by
3.0
3 star rating an average of my ratings for each individual story, as follows:
* The Luck in the Head - ⭐️
* In The Hills, The Cities - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* Crossing Into Cambodia - ⭐️ (Why is this even in here? Not weird enough to even be pre-weird if you ask me.)
* The Braining of Mother Lamprey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
* The Neglected Garden - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* A Soft Voice Whispering Nothing - ⭐️⭐️
* Jack - ⭐️⭐️
* Immolation - ⭐️
* The Lizard of Ooze - ⭐️⭐️
* Watson’s Boy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* The Art of Dying - ⭐️⭐️
* At Reparata - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* Letters from Tainaron - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* The Ride of the Gabbleratchet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* The Gutter Sees The Light That Never Shines - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* Symposium - Skipped, here for stories not literary criticism/theory.
* Festival Lives - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Immensely irritated that I can’t access the internet-only conclusion, since the page on Tachyon’s site is gone! I was enjoying this round robin until the ending where nothing was wrapped up. Sometimes that’s ok in weird fiction, but this one has too many loose ends for me. Maybe could’ve gotten more stars if I’d been able to read the conclusion!
* The Luck in the Head - ⭐️
* In The Hills, The Cities - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* Crossing Into Cambodia - ⭐️ (Why is this even in here? Not weird enough to even be pre-weird if you ask me.)
* The Braining of Mother Lamprey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
* The Neglected Garden - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* A Soft Voice Whispering Nothing - ⭐️⭐️
* Jack - ⭐️⭐️
* Immolation - ⭐️
* The Lizard of Ooze - ⭐️⭐️
* Watson’s Boy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* The Art of Dying - ⭐️⭐️
* At Reparata - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* Letters from Tainaron - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* The Ride of the Gabbleratchet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* The Gutter Sees The Light That Never Shines - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* Symposium - Skipped, here for stories not literary criticism/theory.
* Festival Lives - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Immensely irritated that I can’t access the internet-only conclusion, since the page on Tachyon’s site is gone! I was enjoying this round robin until the ending where nothing was wrapped up. Sometimes that’s ok in weird fiction, but this one has too many loose ends for me. Maybe could’ve gotten more stars if I’d been able to read the conclusion!