FA 2014 20.7 - Make it Strange

[Liz M]

20.7 - Make it Strange - Jama's Task:
Slipstream and New Wave Fabulism are two terms for fiction which crosses the boundaries between SciFi/ Fantasy and Literary Fiction. Stories in this genre usually seem to take place in a conventional reality, but are marked by a sense of the strange, the fantastic, or the unreal. Choose from the titles listed in this working canon of Slipstream Literature.

[Joanna]

Does this include all the different lists (ie all 264)?

[Liz M]

It will include all the titles listed on pages 1-9 and the top 4 titles on page 10 (above the Women Authors section).

[Karen Michele]

This Slipstream list is really full of books I love! I never knew the name for them. Thanks, Jama, for a great unconventional books task!

[Coralie]

Would a book including one of the shorter works on this list work? For example Looking for Jake includes the eighty page The Tain which is on the list.

[Liz M]

Coralie wrote: "Would a book including one of the shorter works on this list work? For example Looking for Jake includes the eighty page The Tain which is on the list."

No, only the titles as given.

See post below

[Liz M]

Coralie wrote: "Would a book including one of the shorter works on this list work? For example Looking for Jake includes the eighty page The Tain which is on the list."

No. The books must either be the specific title listed or fall under the authors for whom "complete works" is listed - Kafka, Beckett, and Pynchon.

[Jama]

Karen, it is only recently that I stumbled on this term, and learned it describes nearly all of my favorite contemporary authors (Murikami, Mieville, David Mitchell, Lethem) and a lot of them that are not on the list seem to fit too. I am looking forward to finding new favorite authors on the list, but wish I had found one more current, as there are a lot of books by the authors listed which might better fit the category, but which were published after 2007.

[Karen Michele]

Jama wrote: "Karen, it is only recently that I stumbled on this term, and learned it describes nearly all of my favorite contemporary authors (Murikami, Mieville, David Mitchell, Lethem) and a lot of them that..."

I am happy to read from the list, but I did notice the older date as well. I am going to read David Mitchell's newest The Bone Clocks for the Cozy Reads task and am looking forward to it. I also discovered a Slipstream shelf on Goodreads which was a pleasant surprise and a lot of fun to browse:

https://www.goodreads.com/genres/slip...

[Louise Bro]

The document lists the whole Aegypt tetralogy, would it be sufficient for this task to read just the first one in the cycle: Aegypt?

[Jama]

Any book on the list counts, so one of the books in the Tetralogy is fine :-)

[Louise Bro]

Thanks, Jama!

[Liz M]

Louise Bro wrote: "The document lists the whole Aegypt tetralogy, would it be sufficient for this task to read just the first one in the cycle: Aegypt?"

FYI, it will not be in the database as a separate book. So when you post for points, please remind us that it is the first book of a tetralogy that is listed.

[Jenifer]

I'm surprised that Frankenstein is not on this list. Or maybe I don't quite understand what slipstream is?