Steph Swainston
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Stephanie Jane Swainston is a British literary fantasy/science fiction author, known for the Castle series. Her debut novel, The Year of Our War, won the 2005 Crawford Award and a nomination for the J
Swainston at Åcon in 2009
New weird
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The new weird is a literary genre that emerged in the 1990s through early 2000s with characteristics of weird fiction and other speculative fiction subgenres. M. John Harrison is credited with creatin
Steph Swainston
…Castle series is also marked by the existence of multiple worlds, including the fantastic, baroque "Shift". The novels have been labeled by others as New Weird fantasy. Swainston has argued against labeling writers, including herself, within genres, on the basis that good fantasy and mainstream literature form…
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