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
Magic for Beginners
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
The City & the City
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
Get in Trouble
Slaughterhouse-Five
Stranger Things Happen
The Bridge
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
Kafka on the Shore
The Bone Clocks
Mother London by Michael MoorcockCold Heaven by Brian MooreThe Great Victorian Collection by Brian MooreCoyote Blue by Christopher MooreIsland of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
Master List of Slipstream Books pt. 3
100 books — 2 voters
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeArea X by Jeff VandermeerRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Dreamscapes
109 books — 61 voters

The Strange Library by Haruki MurakamiThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeThe Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienA Voyage to Arcturus by David  LindsayFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
incredibly Strange Books
126 books — 18 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovSolaris by Stanisław LemThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Translated Speculative Fiction
382 books — 204 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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