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Recommend me weird fiction books, please!
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Kelly Link's short stories are weird
The first story is often not that weird, but she is fantastic at magical realism. They aren't scary though. I recall for instance one story being about a cannon.
someone mentioned Kelly Link to me the other day as "essential" ... i'll surely be looking it.
The first story in magic for beginners (the one about the library, i think it's the title story) is one of my favourite stories ever.
Since i mentioned short stories, If you like short stories get your hands on all the Ted Chiang you can (not anything like kelly link, but I think of him as the Chopin of short sci-fi.
Since i'm on a roll you may like "there is no antimemetics division" which is a little horror-sih may also be up your alley.
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