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1	What is Bizarro fiction? Well, there are two ways to explain it: the long way and the short way.
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3	[[AC:The Short Answer]]
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5	You ever wake up from a dream that made perfect sense at the time; but now that you're awake, you're left thinking, "''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis What! Was! That!?]]''" Bizarro Fiction is like that.
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7	[[AC:The Long Answer]]
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9	Bizarro Fiction is a contemporary literary genre known for high weirdness. As the print media equivalent of the cult film, bizarro fiction strives to be not only strange but also thought-provoking and fun to read. Bizarro fiction takes place in a dreamlike alternate reality where the unexpected, unpredictable, unfathomable, or plain horrifying is commonplace. Think MagicRealism [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on...]] oh never mind... It's [[SanitySlippage it is it is it is]] [[YourHeadASplode AAAAAARRRRRRGGHHsplot]]
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11	Traits of Bizarro Fiction:
12	# Bizarro, simply put, is the genre of the weird.
13	# Bizarro is literature's equivalent to the cult section at the video store.
14	# Like cult movies, Bizarro is sometimes surreal, sometimes avant-garde, sometimes goofy, sometimes bloody, sometimes borderline pornographic, and almost always completely out there.
15	# Bizarro strives not only to be strange, but fascinating, thought-provoking, and, above all, fun to read.
16	# Bizarro often contains a certain cartoon logic that, when applied to the real world, creates an unstable universe where the bizarre becomes the norm and absurdities are made flesh.
17	# Bizarro was created by a group of small press publishers in response to the increasing demand for (good) weird fiction and the increasing number of authors who specialize in it.
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19	Frequently overlaps with {{Horror}}, BlackComedy, and ScienceFiction. Overlaps, but is distinct from NewWeird. May contain an affinity for the [[PunkPunk Punk genres]]. See also GenreBusting. When it comes to fan fiction tropes, compare CrackFic.
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21	Here's [[http://bizarrocentral.com/2011/06/19/common-bizarro-components/ this article]] that lists five common components of the genre, and [[http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/non-fiction/bizarro-fiction-101-not-just-weird-for-weirds-sake/ this interview]] on Rose O'keefe about what bizarro is and isn't, and now [[http://www.bookedpodcast.com/2012/01/28/episode-61-intro-to-bizarro/ a Booked Podcast episode!]]
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23	!!Bizarro Publishers:
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25	* Afterbirth Books
26	* Burning Bulb Publishing
27	* Eraserhead Press and its many imprints:
28	** Deadite Press
29	** Lazy Fascist Press
30	** Raw Dog Screaming Press
31	** Swallowdown Press
32	* Grindhouse Press
33	* Library of Bizarro Horror Press
34	* Legume Man Books
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36	!!Novels, Novellas, Collections and Anthologies
37	[[index]]
38	* ''Literature/AllEncompassingTrip''
39	* ''Literature/AntipaladinBlues''
40	* ''Literature/{{Apeshit}}''
41	* ''Literature/ArmadilloFists''
42	* ''Literature/TheAssGoblinsOfAuschwitz''
43	* ''Literature/TheBadBox''
44	* ''Literature/ABootStompingAHumanFaceForever''
45	* ''Literature/BigGurl''
46	* ''Literature/TheBoyWithTheChainsawHeart''
47	* ''Literature/TheBrothersCrunk''
48	* ''Literature/TheBumTrilogy''
49	* ''Literature/TheCannibalsOfCandyland''
50	* ''Literature/{{Clusterfuck}}''
51	* ''Literature/CrabTown''
52	* ''Literature/{{Cybernetrix}}''
53	* ''Literature/Damnation101''
54	* ''Literature/TheEggMan''
55	* ''Literature/ExtinctionJournals''
56	* ''Literature/TheGreatestFuckingMomentInSports''
57	* ''Literature/TheHandsomeSquirm''
58	* ''Literature/HoleyMatrimony''
59	* ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves''
60	* ''Literature/IKnockedUpSatansDaughter''
61	* ''Literature/KillBall''
62	* ''Literature/LakehouseInfernal''
63	* ''Literature/LittlePeopleBigGuns''
64	* ''Literature/MarabouStorkNightmares''
65	* ''Literature/MonsterCocks''
66	* ''Literature/TheMorbidlyObeseNinja''
67	* ''Literature/NakedLunch''
68	* ''Literature/NightOfTheAssholes''
69	* ''Literature/PseudoCity''
70	* ''Literature/QuicksandHouse''
71	* ''Literature/SausageySanta''
72	* ''Literature/SeaOfThePatchworkCats''
73	* ''Literature/{{Shatnerquake}}''
74	* ''Literature/ShockTotem''
75	* ''Literature/SnuggleClub''
76	* ''Literature/SomewhereBeneathThoseWaves''
77	* ''Literature/SpiderBunny''
78	* ''Literature/TheSubjectSteve''
79	* ''Literature/SweetStory''
80	* ''Literature/ASymphonyOfEternity''
81	* ''Literature/TalesOfTheSpaceSouth''
82	* ''Literature/ThisIsYourFinalWarning''
83	* ''Literature/TheTickPeople''
84	* ''Literature/TumorFruit''
85	* ''Literature/Twisted2010''
86	* ''Literature/UglyHeaven''
87	* ''Literature/UltraFuckers''
88	* ''Literature/TheVaginaAssOfLuciferNiggerbastard''
89	* ''Literature/VillageOfTheMermaids''
90	* ''Literature/WarriorWolfWomenOfTheWasteland''
91	* ''Literature/ZombiesAndShit''
92	!!Web sites featuring Bizarro Fiction
93	* ''Website/RPCAuthority''
94	* ''Website/SCPFoundation''
95	** ''Website/TheWanderersLibrary''
96	** ''Website/ChaosInsurgency''
97	[[/index]]
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100	!! Tropes often found in Bizarro fiction:
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102	* BodyHorror
103	* BizarroApocalypse
104	* {{Gorn}}
105	* AGoodNameForARockBand: A common trait of the titles.
106	* FromBadToWorse
107	* ItMakesSenseInContext: For certain values of "context", and even then, not always.
108	* MindScrew
109	* NauseaFuel
110	* RandomEventsPlot: ... to go with the often dreamlike quality of the genre.
111	* RefugeInAudacity
112	* {{Rule 34}}
113	* {{Squick}}
114	* SurrealHorror
115	* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible
116	* VulgarHumor
117	* {{Wackyland}}
118	* WordSaladTitle

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