The Hinterlands Canon

The Hinterlands Canon is a project I announced in my zine (Available Here) last year. Essentially it's my attempt to wrangle with the long and deep history of speculative fiction (that's science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and also anything else that seems to overlap with the "not real" zone), pick out the stuff that I think is Important, whether that's because it's really good, really influential, really important to me personally, or any other reason I can think of. It's my list, it's particular to me, and reflects what I find important, valuable, or even just interesting in fiction. I might have called this The Hinterlands Appendix N if I'd been familiar with the concept when I wrote my zine. Anyway - see the list below. Entries will note next to them when and how they were added to the canon.

I have a half-baked plan to have some kind of annual post where I announce a new class of entries to the canon, kind of like a hall of fame - we'll see if I ever get that far.