Slipstream

anyone here read "slipstream" fiction? i'm super interested in this genre after recently finding out what it is, and would love some recs if my fellow /lit/ lainons have any

>>1777 Could you link to a few examples? I've heard the term before, and could probably google around but you seem to be pretty familiar.

Not OP, but I just found a Wikipedia entry: >Slipstream is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. The term was coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in an article originally published in SF Eye #5, in 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."[1] > >Slipstream fiction has consequently been described as "the fiction of strangeness", which is as clear a definition as any of the others in wide use A couple of links: A Working Canon of Slipstream Writing (http://www.readercon.org/docs/slipcanon.pdf) Some links discussing the ideas of Slipstream (https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/covers/cov113.htm)

this genre has a name? good to know. i haven't read too many examples in that list, but i've definitely felt a connection that has been difficult to articulate between the ones i have read. i'm not sure i actually understand the definition, but i'll give it a shot: >Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World >Joseph Heller - Catch 22 >Charles Stross - Accelerando I'm not sure how far the genre extends into speculative fiction (specifically, SF with completely made-up settings that don't have anything to do with our world), but I might also add: >Neil Stephenson - Anathem >Frank Herbert - Dune sound about right? or am i off track?

>>2715 Anathem is basically sci-fi if progress had almost stagnated for 3000 years plus pacifistic techpriests, plus magic, plus clocktowers.

>>2717 i took it as imagining if the enlightenment and the subsequent rise of secular science never happened. in anathem's world, science and metaphysics are seen as being fundamentally the same thing. in other words, take the tradition of "alchemy" and extrapolate it out a couple thousand years.

>>2718 Disagree with that: It is as if science became as fanatic and monastic as the early church. The enlightment did happen (probably one of the 3 harbinger before the "terrible events" the other two being WW1 and WW2). Science is just more philosophy-infested compared to our science. (Anathem-science: "would the world move around us if all connection to it was lost and blahblabla". Earth-science: "how can we make this hyper-tank more awesome? Gigalasers!")