Slipstream

Slipstream is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between science fiction/fantasy or mainstream literary fiction.

The term slipstream was coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in an article originally published in SF Eye #5, July 1989. He wrote: "...this is a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange; the way that living in the twentieth century makes you feel, if you are a person of a certain sensibility." Slipstream fiction has consequently been referred to as "the fiction of strangeness," which is as clear a definition as
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Ice
Cloud Atlas
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
The City & the City
Magic for Beginners
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Bridge
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
Get in Trouble
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
Stranger Things Happen
House of Leaves
Kafka on the Shore
Christopher H. Sartisohn
“ Atomize and refigure the word. ”
― Christopher H. Sartisohn, Gargoyle Hotel

Simon Avery
“ Krisztina played the song. It was a lament made of eight notes, repeated. It was an empty melody. It sounded elemental too; it made Krisztina think of the snow falling beyond the window and across Budapest. She wondered if it was snowing in England. Alice’s mother would be here again later, all the way from London. There was so much grief. They were mourning her little girl before she had gone. Without realising she heard these words making themselves part of the song. She played what she could, ...more ”
― Simon Avery, The Teardrop Method

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