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
Mr. Yay by Emily  JaneFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Strange Library by Haruki MurakamiThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeThe Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
incredibly Strange Books
129 books — 28 voters
The Ruined Map by Kōbō AbeVoid by Nathan KuzackWyrd Gods by Susana ImaginárioEmpire of the Senseless by Kathy AckerAnamnesis by Susana Imaginário
Master List of Slipstream Books pt. 1
104 books — 3 voters

Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeTHE AETHER LOOP by Thomas TrueArea X by Jeff VandermeerRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Dreamscapes
115 books — 75 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
507 books — 308 voters

John Kessel
Is Shimmer a floor wax or a dessert topping? Is an electron a wave or a particle? Slipstream tells us that the answer is yes.
James Patrick Kelly John Kessel, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology

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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