Steph Swainston, New Weird And Fandom

[ninebelow]

There is a brief interview with Steph Swainston in the latest Interzone which inspired this true or false poll:

Poll This Is The Modern World

Comments

[matgb]

Who is this Swainson person, and does she write books similar to Steph Swainston?

Also; you (or anyone else) going to the signing thing at Waterstones Thursday?

[fjm]

I may be, if my work doesn't spring another meeting on me.

[ninebelow]

Nah. I've not read the second one yet.

[abigail_n]

Wow, when it comes to our perceived infuence on publishers, we sure are a cynical bunch.

(The expanded version of my answer is that it depends on the publisher and on the fan, but given the either/or nature of the poll I thought 'false' was much closer to being the case than 'true.')

[secritcrush]

The expanded version of my answer is that it depends on the publisher and on the fan

So who would be a fan who has a lot of influence with a publisher?

[coalescent]

Patrick Nielsen Hayden. :-p

[secritcrush]

You can see me but I am giving you the eye roll of doom.

[ext_3059]

Transparently false to say "New Weird doesn't mean anything to anybody"; did anyone actually make this claim?

I don't think it was a marketing exercise, but i do think it was a clique-building exercise amongst authors; China and all the other cool kids got to be in the New Weird gang, away from all the smelly old modern fantasy writers.

-- tom