Going as far as back his debut, Dradin, In Love and, more recently, his extraordinary (and hugely successful) Southern Reach Trilogy, VanderMeer has built a career on narratives that explore the limits of fiction, both in terms of language and form. John Harrison, and Adam Roberts who actively push against the boundaries of storytelling. There are exceptions, authors like Nina Allan, M. There are strong, market-driven reasons why this is the case, why, if you want to a read a genre novel that deliberately eschews a linear, conventional structure you need to look outside the field (for example, Lanny by Max Porter and The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager), or at translated works ( Dark Constellations by Pola Oloixarc and Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima). Whatever success the British and AmeriĀcan New Wave had in broadening our definition of science fiction and fantasy, the Modernist techniques the movement embodied never caught on.
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