Curated Genre Fiction

works that exist to thrill, delight, inform, distract, and feel.

Overview

Genre fiction is what we exist for. For much of the 21st century the publishing industry has sought to profit from works of "popular" fiction while maintaining a firebreak from "elevated" fiction. The big publishers will gladly profit from best selling fantasty and romance novels, but keep them separate from literary fiction.

The airport novel, the science fiction epic, the pulp detective story: this is what we live for. Works of genre fiction that make the most the genre has to offer. We love a dragon or a ghoul or a ray-gun, and recognise the inherent humanity and artistic merit in these books.

Each story we sell belongs to a genre we love. This page is where we spotlight our current favourites as a team, or highlight works that we think relevant to our current moment.

The UnderInk Team

The UnderInk Team

What is Genre Fiction

Genre fiction is one of these slippery notions that can be boiled down to a marketing category, an area of studies, and a bit of both.

For us, genre fiction is art that exists to take us to the abstract and the disreal. The absurd and fantastic. The books we were "allowed" to read as children that aren't "real" books, so we were told.

Editorial

"The first Maynard Trigg novel is where this all started. McNeill's debut entry into the publishing industry, the novel is sharp, witty and daring.

McNeill sets out a dark world of secrets and conspiracy that defies typical genre categories. Is it a fantasy? A little. Is it steampunk? Almost. Is it sci fi? Kind of. Perhaps more than any other quality, the story is bursting with detail. The keen reader will be rewarded for a re-read as more of the world is present than you realise, entire concepts divulged in throw away sentences.

I love this book. You must read it."

James Baker

Assistant Editor

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