New Wave Speculative Fiction
Explore the best New Wave Speculative Fiction books—innovative, thought-provoking stories that redefine the genre. Discover groundbreaking authors and visionary tales today.
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Stranger on the Loose
by D. Harlan Wilson
In this collection of stories, D. Harlan Wilson deconditions the boundaries of reality with the same offbeat methodology that energized his first book The Kafka …
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Ten One
by Lance Olsen
Fiction. You're sitting in a darkened theater, waiting for the movie to begin when American culture explodes all around in I-Max, Sensurround, Technicolor--this is the …
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Girl Imagined by Chance
by Lance Olsen
A critifictional novel about a couple who create a make-believe daughter
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Tonguing the Zeitgeist
by Lance Olsen
In the not-too-distant future, musicians are forced to sell their souls to MTV and take on a glitzy media image to have a chance at …
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Hideous Beauties
by Lance Olsen
HIDEOUS BEAUTIES is a collection of a dozen outrageous fictions, each basedon a photograph, painting, sketch, collage, or assemblage by an equallyoutrageous artist (Hans Bellmer, …
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Terror-dot-gov
by Harold Jaffe
As in Harold Jaffe's two previous "docufiction" collections, False Positive and 15 Serial Killers, the author of Terror-Dot-Gov selects then "treats" his texts such that …
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15 Serial Killers
by Harold Jaffe
Exploring dangerous territory, Jafee uses illustrations, letters, monologues, interviews, and "unsituated dialogues" to bring to life some of the most infamous serial killers of all …
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Straight Razor
by Harold Jaffe
Time: 20 minutes into the future Setting: The treacherous margins of post-industrial society Cast: Sexual outlaws, serial murderers, techno-freaks, gender benders, rogue cops, punk anarchists …
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The Kafka Chronicles
by Mark Amerika
Tells the stories of young artists, the drug underworld, a couple victimized by government harassment, and the officers assigned to control the media during the …
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Sexual Blood
by Mark Amerika
"In Sexual Blood, Amerika tracks the bohemian life of his main character, Mal, an alternative rock musician whose strange encounter with the Medicine Woman causes …
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Fishnet
by Paul A. Toth
Maurice Melnick's imagination has forever painted an underwater world more exotic yet safer than the one above. Now he sees in wife Shelia's smile all …
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Fizz
by Paul A. Toth
Meet Ray Pulaski. With no real personality of his own, Pulaski reinvents himself as Ray Style, rock star and neighborhood gigolo...only the neighborhood isn't buying …
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Mop Men
by Alan Emmins
Emmins offers a profile of the successful and extremely eccentric Crime Scene Cleaners--the men who step in and clean up after the police finish their …
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Lint
by Steve Aylett
A funny mock biography traces the life and career of Jeff Lint--a marginally successful but brilliantly original science fiction writer--through the 1960s, close encouters with …
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Toxicology
by Steve Aylett
Some stories in this new collection take place in Beerlight, the city of heroic criminals and villainous cops Steve Aylett introduced in Slaughtermatic. Others are …
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The Crime Studio
by Steve Aylett
In Steve Aylett's irreverent world, crime is the last innovative art form. Lawyers drop in by parachute, gun shops stay open all night, and bulletproof …
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Pollen
by Jeff Noon
The bestselling author of Vurt spins another audaciously inventive tales of reality gone soft and dreams become real. As an enormous cloud of pollen descends …
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Nymphomation
by Jeff Noon
Set both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a sinister corporate takeover of the City of Manchester in the form of …
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Automated Alice
by Jeff Noon
This is an eclectic retelling of the classic Alice in Wonderland. When Alice steps into the grandfather clock she is transported in time from 1860 …
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Cobralingus
by Jeff Noon
This novel traces the conception of cobralingus, a way of changing language to a mutated, liquid state that can then be transformed into something entirely …
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Up
by Ronald Sukenick
The author himself is the main character of this book, in which he glides undisturbed from present to future, from reality to fantasy. Sometimes he's …
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Mosaic Man
by Ronald Sukenick
A fantasy novel on a Jew seeking his identity, following him in various situations. In one, he participates in a bombing raid on present-day France, …