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
The Bridge
Slaughterhouse-Five
Get in Trouble
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
Stranger Things Happen
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
Kafka on the Shore
House of Leaves
The Ruined Map by Kōbō AbeVoid by Nathan KuzackEmpire of the Senseless by Kathy AckerThe Ark Sakura by Kōbō AbeInter Ice Age 4 by Kōbō Abe
Master List of Slipstream Books pt. 1
101 books — 2 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Wasp Factory by Iain BanksLittle, Big by John CrowleyCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Bruce Sterling's Slipstream
122 books — 12 voters

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoKing Rat by China MiévilleThe Last Days of Christ the Vampire by J.G. EccariusSeconds by David ElyCarmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller
Master List of Slipstream Books pt. 2
100 books — 2 voters
American Gods by Neil GaimanGood Omens by Terry PratchettDracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Theological Weird Fiction
494 books — 295 voters

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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