March 21, 2011

Jeff VanderMeer has released the table of contents for the first volume of the upcoming anthology called ODD? (edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer). Here’s the list: Amos Tutuola – “The Dead Babies”Gustave Le Rouge – “The War of the Vampires” (new translation by Brian Evenson and David Beus)Jeffrey Ford – “Weiroot”Leopoldo Lugones – “The Bloat Toad” (new translation by Larry Nolen)Mark Samuels – “Apt 205”Michael Cisco – “Modern Cities Exist Only to Be Destroyed” (published only in a limited edition previously)Nalo Hopkinson – “Slow Cold Chick”Sumanth Prabhaker – “A Hard Truth About Waste Management” (revised since publication)Hiromi Goto – “Stinky Girl”Eric Basso – “Logues”Edward Morris – “Lotophagi”Karin Tidbeck – “The Aunts” (previously unpublished)Jeffrey Thomas – “The Fork”Rikki Ducornet – “The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi”Amanda le Bas de Plumetot – “Unmaking” (previously unpublished)Karl Hans Strobl – “The Head” (new translation by Gio Clairval)Caitlin R. Kiernan – “A Child’s Guide to the Hollow Hills”Stacey Levine – “Sausage” I’ll admit that I haven’t heard of a number of folks on this list, but the fact that Amos Tutuola, Jeffrey Ford, and Nalo Hopkinson are on it tells me a lot about the quality and the vision of the anthology. You better believe that this sucker will be on my Christmas list. What do you all think of it?