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: Instead, this is a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange...
: Instead, this is a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange...<ref>[[Bruce Sterling]] in "Slipstream", ''SF Eye'', #5 (July 1989), available at http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Catscan_columns/catscan.05</ref>
 
by [[Bruce Sterling]] in "Slipstream", ''SF Eye'', #5 (July 1989), available at http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Catscan_columns/catscan.05


Jed Hartman, 2001:  
Jed Hartman, 2001:  
: [T]hat's one definition of slipstream: fiction with fantastical elements that's published in a marketing category other than speculative fiction.
: [T]hat's one definition of slipstream: fiction with fantastical elements that's published in a marketing category other than speculative fiction.<ref>Jed Hartman, "Where Does Genre Come From?", ''Strange Horizons'' (2001), available at http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20011203/editorial.shtml</ref>
-- Jed Hartman, "Where Does Genre Come From?", ''Strange Horizons'' (2001), available at http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20011203/editorial.shtml


Nick Mamatas, 2004:  
Nick Mamatas, 2004:  
: So I'm not slipstream because there is no such thing as slipstream as it is defined. What is generally called slipstream is just SF/F/H written by someone whose imprinted commodity consumption, and thus his or her subsequent cultural production, varies from the imprints that inform the view of the critic.
: So I'm not slipstream because there is no such thing as slipstream as it is defined. What is generally called slipstream is just SF/F/H written by someone whose imprinted commodity consumption, and thus his or her subsequent cultural production, varies from the imprints that inform the view of the critic.<ref>Nick Mamatas, [http://nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com/395922.html Never respond to a review, certainly not like this], Nick Mamatas Livejournal (nihilistic_kid), 2004/3/8</ref>
-- Nick Mamatas, [http://nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com/395922.html Never respond to a review, certainly not like this], Nick Mamatas Livejournal (nihilistic_kid), 2004/3/8




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* Bruce Sterling, "Slipstream", ''SF Eye'', #5 (July 1989), available at http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Catscan_columns/catscan.05
* Bruce Sterling, "Slipstream", ''SF Eye'', #5 (July 1989), available at http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Catscan_columns/catscan.05
* Bruce Sterling, "[http://www.lib.ru/STERLINGB/catscan05.txt Slipstream]"
* Bruce Sterling, "[http://www.lib.ru/STERLINGB/catscan05.txt Slipstream]"
* [http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2006/09/07/now-all-slipstream-until-the-end/ Now All Slipstream Until The End], ''Torque Control'', 2006 Sept. 7 - 2007 Dec. 7
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[[category:Genres]]
[[category:Genres]]

Latest revision as of 09:35, 21 August 2007

Definitions

Bruce Sterling, 1989:

This genre is not "category" SF; it is not even "genre" SF. Instead, it is a contemporary
kind of writing which has set its face against consensus reality. It is fantastic, surreal
sometimes, speculative on occasion, but not rigorously so. It does not aim to provoke
a "sense of wonder" or to systematically extrapolate in the manner of classic science
fiction.
Instead, this is a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange...[1]

Jed Hartman, 2001:

[T]hat's one definition of slipstream: fiction with fantastical elements that's published in a marketing category other than speculative fiction.[2]

Nick Mamatas, 2004:

So I'm not slipstream because there is no such thing as slipstream as it is defined. What is generally called slipstream is just SF/F/H written by someone whose imprinted commodity consumption, and thus his or her subsequent cultural production, varies from the imprints that inform the view of the critic.[3]


Further Reading

Notes

  1. Bruce Sterling in "Slipstream", SF Eye, #5 (July 1989), available at http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Catscan_columns/catscan.05
  2. Jed Hartman, "Where Does Genre Come From?", Strange Horizons (2001), available at http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20011203/editorial.shtml
  3. Nick Mamatas, Never respond to a review, certainly not like this, Nick Mamatas Livejournal (nihilistic_kid), 2004/3/8