like the Slipstream genre (http://blogs.starwars.com/Urban-sprawl-05/24) , i've just learned about this genre, from here:
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/books.html

apparently, New Weird is one of those amebic styles that strives to break the predictabilities of Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy...i still need to read more about New Weird and read some samples of it, but i have a feeling it's just another way of trying to freshen up some authors' work in the Speculative Fiction field.

if there's anything i don't like is pretentiousness, especially in the Fine Arts or in Literature. i remember when i was an undergrad at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln having this conversation with a co-student about music. keep in mind that this was the early 1990s, when "Alternative" Rock was nascent. my fellow student said that he was in a band (or the bands that he listened to), i believe. he told me that their style was, something to the effect, 'So alternative we're not even Alternative.'

good lord!

that was one of the things i learned going to university in the Arts: becareful of trying to be so original! ironically, trying to be different or anti-establishment for the sake of being antithetical or alternative becomes a genre unto itself! thus, predictability...and wasn't that what they were trying to avoid in the first place???

anyway, that's what i think of when i read about Slipstream or New Weird. some writers trying too hard to be different. and it's not just me. take a quick read in this link what Jayme Lynn Blaschke said about Paul Di Filippo, in the first paragraph:

http://www.sfsite.com/08a/bs157.htm

anyway, i'll learn more about this New Weird. i'll post about it later probably.

PS i came back to add that i don't mean to sound like some narrow-minded snob. i believe that everyone has their own "voice" in Literature or the Arts. all i'm trying to do is voice my opinion about different genres and using the yard stick that the existing genres have set out for measurements.

whether we like it or not, in society we have labels--Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy, Western, etc. we can even blend different genres together. these are simply my opinions and i admit i can be a little constrictive in my interpretations.