Thursday, January 05, 2006
"Slipstream is a term for a literary work which pushes the boundaries of the conventions of and thus neither sits comfortably within the confines of either science fiction or fantasy or in mainstream literary fiction.
The term slipstream when used in reference to literature, was coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in an article originally published in SF Eye #5, July 1989. He says in part that "...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." Slipstream fiction has consequently been referred to as "the fiction of strangeness," which is as clear of a definition as any others in wide use.
Slipstream as indicated in the first paragraph above, falls in the gap left between SF (science fiction) and mainstream fiction. Fans of mainstream literature tend to avoid it because it is too strange, and fans of SF tend to avoid it because it is not strange enough."
ripped straight off wikipedia. yup in my boredom i have been reading up on weird stuff like this. apparently slipstream is a genre that i like but never realized existed. lol. i guess that's what i've actually been aiming for, unconsciously, but yucks, can't seem to get it right. not exactly fantasy, but not exactly magic realism either. *scratches head*
been reading andre breton's manifesto on surrealism. meh, my head hurts...
**dream until you die**5:25 PM
