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==Definitions== | |||
Bruce Sterling, 1989: | |||
: This genre is not "category" SF; it is not even "genre" SF. Instead, it is a contemporary | : 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 | : kind of writing which has set its face against consensus reality. It is fantastic, surreal | ||
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: fiction. | : fiction. | ||
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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> | ||
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.<ref>Jed Hartman, "Where Does Genre Come From?", ''Strange Horizons'' (2001), available at http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20011203/editorial.shtml</ref> | |||
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.<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> | |||
==Further Reading== | |||
=Further Reading= | |||
* James Patrick Kelly, "On the Net: Slipstream", ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', #311, available at http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0311/onthenet2.shtml | * James Patrick Kelly, "On the Net: Slipstream", ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', #311, available at http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0311/onthenet2.shtml | ||
* Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold, "Is Slipstream Just a Fancy Word for Voice?" ''Strange Horizons'', v. 2, no. 3 (April 2005), available at http://www.irosf.com/zine/printable.qsml?artid=10142 | * Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold, "Is Slipstream Just a Fancy Word for Voice?" ''Strange Horizons'', v. 2, no. 3 (April 2005), available at http://www.irosf.com/zine/printable.qsml?artid=10142 | ||
* 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]" | |||
* [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 | |||
==Notes== | |||
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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
- James Patrick Kelly, "On the Net: Slipstream", Asimov's Science Fiction, #311, available at http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0311/onthenet2.shtml
- Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold, "Is Slipstream Just a Fancy Word for Voice?" Strange Horizons, v. 2, no. 3 (April 2005), available at http://www.irosf.com/zine/printable.qsml?artid=10142
- 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"
- Now All Slipstream Until The End, Torque Control, 2006 Sept. 7 - 2007 Dec. 7
Notes
- ↑ 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, "Where Does Genre Come From?", Strange Horizons (2001), available at http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20011203/editorial.shtml
- ↑ Nick Mamatas, Never respond to a review, certainly not like this, Nick Mamatas Livejournal (nihilistic_kid), 2004/3/8