New Weird

The early-2000s movement remixing weird fiction with urban grit and political teeth, with Miéville's New Crobuzon as its flagship city.

The authors (1)

China Miéville

b. 1972 · British · New Weird, Weird Fiction, Urban Fantasy

The central figure of the New Weird and the most formally restless major fantasist of his generation: Miéville re-opened the weird tradition for the twenty-first century and made genre hybridity itself a respectable literary…

Essential books, oldest first (2)

The Scar

China Miéville · 2002

BSFA and Locus winner, widely held the best Bas-Lag book: proof the New Weird could do swashbuckling sweep without surrendering an ounce of strangeness.