If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day. We have unprecedented access to information; cognitive dissonance is a banner headline in our morning papers and radiates silently from our computer screens. Slipstream, poised between literature and popular culture, embraces the dissonance. These ambitious stories of visionary strangeness defy the conventions of science ...
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If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day. We have unprecedented access to information; cognitive dissonance is a banner headline in our morning papers and radiates silently from our computer screens. Slipstream, poised between literature and popular culture, embraces the dissonance. These ambitious stories of visionary strangeness defy the conventions of science fiction. Tales by Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Carol Emshwiller, George Saunders, and others pull the reader into a vivid dreamspace and embrace the knowledge that life today is increasingly surreal.
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Highly recommend this bizarro anthology of short stories from the last 50 years. The editors have culled works from sci-fi, horror, mystery, and 'literary' fiction in order to create a sort of alternate history of contemporary literature, in the impossible-to-define 'slipstream' genre, the genre that 'makes you feel very strange.' Some of the stories are duds (Waldrop's, VanDerMeer's), but the really good ones -- by Carol Emshwiller, Bruce Sterling, George Saunders, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Jeffrey Ford, and others -- will make you question the nature of reality itself, and expand your ideas about what fiction can (or should) do. This collection proves that 'postmodernism' can still be shocking, disturbing, and wickedly fun.
