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Ice Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.62 — 13,597 ratings — published 1967
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Cloud Atlas Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as slipstream)
avg rating 4.01 — 275,681 ratings — published 2004
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as slipstream)
avg rating 4.14 — 326,217 ratings — published 1994
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.80 — 334,325 ratings — published 2014
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The City & the City The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,832 ratings — published 2009
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Magic for Beginners Magic for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,343 ratings — published 2005
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Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.78 — 591 ratings — published 2006
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Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as slipstream)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,529,376 ratings — published 1969
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The Bridge The Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,997 ratings — published 1986
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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 77,657 ratings — published 2000
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Get in Trouble Get in Trouble (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.67 — 13,128 ratings — published 2015
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Authority (Southern Reach, #2) Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
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avg rating 3.55 — 114,826 ratings — published 2014
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Stranger Things Happen Stranger Things Happen (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 6,477 ratings — published 2001
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House of Leaves House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as slipstream)
avg rating 4.09 — 213,669 ratings — published 2000
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Kafka on the Shore Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as slipstream)
avg rating 4.11 — 577,683 ratings — published 2002
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Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3) Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.67 — 86,457 ratings — published 2014
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The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,564,274 ratings — published 1915
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The Bone Clocks The Bone Clocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.85 — 101,990 ratings — published 2014
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The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,565,077 ratings — published 1985
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Piranesi Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as slipstream)
avg rating 4.20 — 583,051 ratings — published 2020
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Orlando Orlando (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 123,200 ratings — published 1928
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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 11 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.95 — 349,814 ratings — published 2009
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Invisible Cities Invisible Cities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 102,715 ratings — published 1972
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The Land of Laughs The Land of Laughs (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 6,895 ratings — published 1980
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The Affirmation The Affirmation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,454 ratings — published 1981
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as slipstream)
avg rating 4.11 — 158,122 ratings — published 1985
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Little, Big Little, Big (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 12,766 ratings — published 1981
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The Crying of Lot 49 The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,176 ratings — published 1965
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Pretty Monsters: Stories Pretty Monsters: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,218 ratings — published 2008
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The Library at Mount Char The Library at Mount Char (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 89,284 ratings — published 2015
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Foucault’s Pendulum Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 76,607 ratings — published 1988
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Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 915,588 ratings — published 2005
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One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as slipstream)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,153,270 ratings — published 1967
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1) Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as slipstream)
avg rating 4.16 — 569,393 ratings — published 1996
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After Dark After Dark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 197,897 ratings — published 2004
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Beloved Beloved (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 515,267 ratings — published 1987
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The Sea Came in at Midnight The Sea Came in at Midnight (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,009 ratings — published 1999
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The Raw Shark Texts The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 22,382 ratings — published 2007
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,928 ratings — published 1959
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This Is How You Lose the Time War This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.82 — 375,174 ratings — published 2019
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as slipstream)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,288 ratings — published 1979
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Borne (Borne, #1) Borne (Borne, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,974 ratings — published 2017
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Gravity’s Rainbow Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 50,294 ratings — published 1973
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The Third Policeman The Third Policeman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 24,234 ratings — published 1967
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Blindness Blindness (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 364,891 ratings — published 1995
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Ægypt (The Ægypt Cycle, #1) Ægypt (The Ægypt Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 2,269 ratings — published 1987
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Was Was (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,897 ratings — published 1992
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Fever Dream Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as slipstream)
avg rating 3.72 — 58,989 ratings — published 2014
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The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2) The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
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avg rating 4.19 — 35,624 ratings — published 2002
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Tenth of December Tenth of December (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 84,859 ratings — published 2013
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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, her head down, her face solemn and determined. She went back to the start, and felt the world falling away, the tears drying on her face. She heard the words coming, falling like the luminous snow. After a few minutes she looked across what seemed like a huge divide to Alice on the bed and faltered. In the house of the body, the lights were being extinguished, one by one. The floors were now bare, the walls unadorned, all sound hollow and lost; all that remained was the ghost of what was, the glimmer of the melody, the tune, the song of a life lived and lost in three minutes.”
― Simon Avery, The Teardrop Method

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

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