Origin Story
- CATSCAN 5: “Slipstream” (Bruce Sterling, 1989)
Revisions
- Readercon 18 Slipstream Canon. Reactions: Martin Lewis, one, two; Paul Kincaid; Sarah Monette. (July 2007)
- Definition from Brave New Words: the Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction (2007)
- Interview with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (June 2006)
- “Why Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist stories in an anthology named ParaSpheres?” (Ken Keegan, March 2006)
- “The Romantic Underground” (Jeff Vandermeer, November 2005)
- “Never respond to a review, certainly not like this” (Nick Mamatas, March 2004)
- “On the Net: Slipstream” (James Patrick Kelly, December 2003)
- Guest Editor’s Note to Conjunctions 39 (Peter Straub, Autumn 2002)
- “Where Does Genre Come From?” (Jed Hartman, December 2001)
- “What is Slipstream?” (Martin Lewis, 2001)
- Nova Express Slipstream issue (Vol 5, No. 2; Fall/Winter 1999), including The Master List of Slipstream Books (Bruce Sterling and Lawrence Person)
- The Interstitial Arts Foundation (Many essays. For example.)
Discussions
- Science Fiction Studies special issue on slipstream, including Bruce Sterling’s “Slipstream 2” and a symposium
- John Kessel on slipstream books (Paraspheres, In Persuasion Nation, The Nimrod Flipout, Skinny-Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, Slipstreams; F&SF, January 2007)
- Gabe Chouinard on slipstream (September 2006)
- “Thoughts To Think About Before Reading Feeling Very Strange” (Alan DeNiro, August 2006)
- “In Which I Am Constitutionally Unable Of Ever Shutting Up About This ‘Slipstream’ Business” (Benjamin Rosenbaum, August 2006; comments)
- “I Want My Twentieth Century Schizoid Chatbot” (David Schwartz, August 2006)
- “Feeling Very Strange“, “SLIPSTREAM” and “Slippery” (Jeffrey Ford, May-June 2006)
- “I Want My Twentieth Century Schizoid Art” (David Moles, May 2005)
- Equipoise (John Clute, April 2005)
- Discussion of “The Old Equations” by Matt Cheney (Strange Horizons, March 2005)
- “Nuns Fret Not …” (NightShade message boards, December 2003)
- “Slipstream 101” by Pawel Frelik, SFRA Review 290 (Fall 2009): 3–6
Maps
- Interfictions 2, edited by Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak (2009)
- Reviewed by TS Miller (Strange Horizons)
- Interview with Sherman and Barzak (SF Signal)
- Subtle Edens, edited by Allen Ashley (2008)
- Reviewed by Martin Lewis (Strange Horizons)
- Interfictions, edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss (2007)
- Reviewed by David Soyka (Strange Horizons)
- Submission guidelines (now closed)
- Polyphony, edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake (2002-2007)
- Volume 6, reviewed by Paul Kincaid (Strange Horizons)
- Volume 5, reviewed by Paul Kincaid (Strange Horizons)
- Volume 4, reviewed by Matt Cheney and Dan Green (The Reading Experience)
- Volumes 1 to 3, reviewed by Greg Beatty (Strange Horizons)
- Volume 1, reviewed by Sherwood Smith (SF Site)
- Feeling Very Strange, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (2006)
- Reviewed by Niall Harrison (Strange Horizons)
- Reviewed by David Soyka (SF Site)
- ParaSpheres, edited by Rusty Morrison and Ken Keegan (2006)
- Reviewed by Darja Malcolm-Clarke (Strange Horizons)
- Reviewed by Alan DeNiro (Rain Taxi)
- Reviewed by David Soyka (SF Site)
- Kafka in Bronteland by Tamar Yellin (2006)
- Reviewed by Paul Kincaid (Strange Horizons)
- The Accidental by Ali Smith (2005)
- Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists edited by Peter Straub (2003)
- Reviewed by William Thompson (SF Site)
- Reviewed by David Soyka (Locus Online)
- What Are The New Wave Fabulists? by Paul Kincaid (NYRSF)
- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (2003)
- The Vintage Book of Amnesia, edited by Jonathan Lethem (2002)
- Leviathan, edited by Jeff Vandermeer with Luke O’Grady, Rose Secrest andForrest Aguirre (1994 – 2002)
- Volume 3, reviewed by Rich Horton (Locus Online)
Suggestions for further additions welcomed.
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Niall, you’re a sick, sick, sick bastard.
:L
You know, it’s ALMOST AS IF we’re talking about this stuff too much.
It’s like a loose tooth. I can’t help poking at it.
Perhaps it would be helpful to have the categories arranged chronologically given that the history of slipstream is that of an evolving definition.
I notice the big black hole in the Nineties. Nothing actually happened before the internet, did it?
Third Jeff Ford thread: Feeling Very Strange.
Martin: cheers. The lists are more or less chronological — the most recent stuff is at the top of each category. Or did you mean something else?
I notice the big black hole in the Nineties. Nothing actually happened before the internet, did it?
Certainly nothing important.
(More seriously, I almost included John Clute’s entries on ‘slipstream’ and ‘fabulation’ from the Encyclopedia despite their not being online, but I decided I wasn’t trying to create a definitive timeline … yet.)
The lists are more or less chronological
A bit more than less, now. Martin, can you give me a date for when you wrote your slipstream piece (as opposed to when you posted it)?
More seriously, I almost included John Clute’s entries on ’slipstream’ and ‘fabulation’ from the Encyclopedia despite their not being online,
I was thinking about that too. It will be interesting when the Third Edition of the Encyclopedia is published online if they will make any of the content freely available. There is possibly a case for locking author entries and the like but making critical terms public access.
but I decided I wasn’t trying to create a definitive timeline … yet.
You know you want to…
Martin, can you give me a date for when you wrote your slipstream piece
I think it was 2001 but I will have to check when I get home.
You may want to consider the interstitial issue of the JFA – for example
Andrew M Butler, ‘Between the “Deaths” of Science Fiction: A Skeptical View of the Possibility for Anti-Genres.’ Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 15.3 (2004): 208-216.
Wow! What a great collection of data.
You might add links to reviews of Trampoline and Leviathan, if there are any indepth ones on the internet.
But this is a great idea.
Shame there is no such thing as slipstream. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
JeffV
Andrew: at the moment I’m sticking to online articles. But if I ever get the urge to compile the True And Complete History Of Slipstream (And Similar) Discussion, that issue will no doubt be on it …
Jeff: Good call on Leviathan and Trampoline. I’ll have a proper look around for reviews of those later. I’ve also added your “Romantic Underground” piece, which seems not-entirely-irrelevant …
*sigh*
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Niall – you are a star, as ever. This is incredibly helpful for my research. At this rate you’ll be needing an acknowledgement in the book!
Further links:
A discussion on the Nightshade Books forums, December 2003
Nick Mamatas on slipstream, August 2003
I found the links in “An Introduction to Slipstream”, by Jed Hartman, which was apparently a handout at the SFRA conference in 2004 which I found attached to the back of an old fanzine.
Since Martin hasn’t corrected himself, his slipstream piece was written in February 2006.
Er, I don’t think so — that’s when the post was made, but he said he wrote the piece for 3SF, which folded several years ago.
Pay attention at the back, Lal.
Merry Christmas :)
You might find the Nova Express Slipstream issue (Volume 5, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1999) of interest. Among other things, it contained this expanded Slipstream list:
http://home.austin.rr.com/lperson/slip.html
Thanks Lawrence, I’ve added it to the list.
Gabe’s entry has now been deleted. Also David Soyka on Interfictions.
Thanks. I need to do a proper round-up of Interfictions-related material at some point.
Does anyone have a copy of the Carter Scholz interview from New Horizons #11 that Sterling mentioned in his article in Catscan? I’ve looked everywhere. Found copies of almost every single issue of New Horizons except for #11, and there doesn’t seem to be a copy of the interview anywhere on the internet. Would love to find a copy both for historical reasons and for personal interest. It definitely belongs here, if nowhere else. (I’m not sure what the copyright status would be.)
What about Anne Cameron’s DREAMSPEAKER, or Nick Bantock (GRIFFIN AND SABINE series; THE VENETIAN’S WIFE; THE FORGETTING ROOM)? Are they slipstream, magic realism, or something else?