Slipstream or Interstitial Fiction

1
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
10,285 members
338 reviews
4
7 Members
macha, Milesc, ssanders_81, iggyjreilly, Dilara86, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda,
2
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
29,818 members
838 reviews
3.9
8 Members
macha, LittleTaiko, acenturyofsleep, aulsmith, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda,
Explanations
aulsmith: historical speculative fiction
3
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
11,204 members
447 reviews
3.8
5 Members
Milesc, aulsmith, krazy4katz, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
4
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
17,770 members
391 reviews
3.9
5 Members
LittleTaiko, mmignano11, krazy4katz, ahef1963, kara.shamy
5
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,387 members
1,236 reviews
4.1
5 Members
acenturyofsleep, krazy4katz, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
6
Grendel
by John Gardner
6,688 members
118 reviews
3.8
5 Members
macha, acenturyofsleep, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda
7
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
14,285 members
284 reviews
4
5 Members
acenturyofsleep, thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
8
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,939 members
268 reviews
4
5 Members
thecoroner, Dilara86, kara.shamy, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda
9
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
47,530 members
1,051 reviews
3.9
4 Members
mmignano11, krazy4katz, ahef1963, kara.shamy
10
Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
12,404 members
203 reviews
3.9
4 Members
macha, krazy4katz, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda
11
Was
by Geoff Ryman
946 members
16 reviews
4
4 Members
Milesc, acenturyofsleep, aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
12
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
29,422 members
315 reviews
4.1
5 Members
macha, mmignano11, Dilara86, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ,aulsmith
13
Freedom and Necessity
by Steven Brust
1,133 members
21 reviews
3.9
4 Members
macha, aulsmith, merrystar, Lou.Clifton
14
Tigana
by Guy Gavriel Kay
5,563 members
159 reviews
4.1
6 Members
macha, aulsmith, merrystar, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda,
15
Blindness
by José Saramago
14,615 members
432 reviews
4.1
4 Members
iggyjreilly, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
16
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
26,821 members
1,014 reviews
3.8
4 Members
ssanders_81, iggyjreilly, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
17
Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
10,719 members
407 reviews
4.2
4 Members
krazy4katz, sallypursell, Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda
18
The City and the City
by China Miéville
7,201 members
392 reviews
4
4 Members
macha, iggyjreilly, Dilara86, Lou.Clifton
19
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
42,067 members
1,313 reviews
4.1
3 Members
acenturyofsleep, mmignano11, ahef1963
20
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
24,888 members
347 reviews
4.1
4 Members
aulsmith, krazy4katz, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
21
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
23,849 members
514 reviews
4.2
4 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda
22
The Last Light of the Sun
by Guy Gavriel Kay
2,132 members
53 reviews
3.8
4 Members
macha, aulsmith, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
23
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
19,656 members
405 reviews
4.2
3 Members
iggyjreilly, sallypursell, thecoroner
24
The Sandman: A Game of You
by Neil Gaiman
6,404 members
91 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
macha, acenturyofsleep, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
25
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
10,814 members
228 reviews
4.1
4 Members
macha, thecoroner, Dilara86, Lou.Clifton
26
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
12,837 members
517 reviews
3.9
4 Members
mmignano11, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda
27
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
19,645 members
716 reviews
4.1
3 Members
macha, Milesc, iggyjreilly
28
The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
11,678 members
151 reviews
4
3 Members
Milesc, aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
29
The Sandman: Season of Mists
by Neil Gaiman
7,241 members
111 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
macha, acenturyofsleep, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
30
The Sandman: Dream Country
by Neil Gaiman
7,670 members
130 reviews
4.2
5 Members
macha, acenturyofsleep, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
31
The Metamorphosis [novella]
by Franz Kafka
15,204 members
277 reviews
3.9
3 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy
32
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
30,941 members
445 reviews
3.9
3 Members
iggyjreilly, thecoroner, ahef1963
33
11/22/63
by Stephen King
16,796 members
854 reviews
4.2
3 Members
mmignano11, krazy4katz, ahef1963
34
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
13,527 members
153 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
acenturyofsleep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
35
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
14,631 members
189 reviews
3.9
3 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
36
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,198 members
777 reviews
4.1
3 Members
krazy4katz, Dilara86, ahef1963
37
Dangerous Angels
by Francesca Lia Block
1,890 members
39 reviews
4.2
3 Members
acenturyofsleep, aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
38
The Sandman: Brief Lives
by Neil Gaiman
5,780 members
78 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
macha, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
39
Lust
by Geoff Ryman
243 members
8 reviews
3.8
2 Members
aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
40
Girlfriend in a Coma
by Douglas Coupland
3,355 members
45 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
41
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
7,768 members
228 reviews
4
3 Members
macha, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda,
42
A Song for Arbonne
by Guy Gavriel Kay
2,933 members
58 reviews
4.1
4 Members
macha, aulsmith, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
43
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
38,938 members
1,512 reviews
4.1
2 Members
iggyjreilly, mmignano11
44
The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
2,641 members
43 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
Dilara86, Lou.Clifton
45
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
18,821 members
577 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Dilara86, ahef1963
46
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
7,087 members
109 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963
47
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
38,592 members
974 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
mmignano11, ahef1963
48
The Book of Lies
by Felice Picano
172 members
4 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
49
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
4,199 members
80 reviews
3.8
3 Members
macha, aulsmith, Lou.Clifton,
Explanations
aulsmith: I think this reads better as a mainstream exploration of sexuality set in an sfnal place, rather than sf.
50
Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
4,542 members
201 reviews
4
2 Members
kara.shamy, Lou.Clifton
51
Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
1,481 members
28 reviews
4.2
2 Members
Milesc, Lou.Clifton
52
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,459 members
624 reviews
4
2 Members
kara.shamy, Lou.Clifton
53
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
20,302 members
496 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Dilara86, ahef1963
54
As She Climbed Across the Table
by Jonathan Lethem
1,339 members
30 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
craso
55
The Magician of Lhasa
by David Michie
63 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
krazy4katz
56
The Circle
by Dave Eggers
6,963 members
450 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
krazy4katz, Lou.Clifton
57
Watchmen
by Alan Moore
21,059 members
518 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
macha, Lou.Clifton
58
The Children of Men
by P. D. James
6,466 members
215 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
macha, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
59
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,548 members
270 reviews
4
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963
60
253
by Geoff Ryman
585 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
61
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
33,136 members
707 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
acenturyofsleep, mmignano11, Lou.Clifton,aulsmith ,
62
The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
945 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
mmignano11, Lou.Clifton
63
The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster
10,852 members
174 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963
64
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
by Philip K. Dick
1,858 members
15 reviews
3.9
2 Members
macha, aulsmith
65
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
61,513 members
870 reviews
3.9
3 Members
mmignano11, krazy4katz, ahef1963,aulsmith ,
66
The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
7,907 members
192 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
67
Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
7,864 members
222 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
68
A Maggot
by John Fowles
1,508 members
19 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
69
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
by Neil Gaiman
10,967 members
140 reviews
4
3 Members
acenturyofsleep, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,ManWithAnAgenda
70
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,301 members
438 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
71
Death: The Time of Your Life
by Neil Gaiman
2,298 members
14 reviews
4.1
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
72
The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro
3,989 members
88 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
73
The Sandman: The Kindly Ones
by Neil Gaiman
5,533 members
84 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
74
The Sandman: Worlds' End
by Neil Gaiman
5,432 members
69 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
75
The Lions of al-Rassan
by Guy Gavriel Kay
3,483 members
114 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
aulsmith, merrystar,
76
The Sandman: The Wake
by Neil Gaiman
5,122 members
69 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
77
Death: The High Cost of Living
by Neil Gaiman
3,602 members
46 reviews
4.1
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
78
The Sandman: Endless Nights
by Neil Gaiman
4,688 members
68 reviews
4.2
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
79
Bones of the Moon
by Jonathan Carroll
877 members
19 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
80
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,428 members
1,141 reviews
4
2 Members
acenturyofsleep, ahef1963,
81
The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
2,469 members
142 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
kara.shamy
82
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
by J. G. Ballard
653 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
macha
83
Cotton
by Christopher Wilson
224 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
iggyjreilly
84
Mischief
by Chris Wilson
28 members
1 review
3.8
Member
iggyjreilly
85
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection
by Ellen Datlow
176 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
acenturyofsleep
86
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
8,769 members
397 reviews
4.1
3 Members
macha, acenturyofsleep, Lou.Clifton, ,aulsmith
87
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
by Ellen Datlow
301 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
acenturyofsleep
88
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
by Susanna Clarke
4,589 members
136 reviews
3.9
Member
acenturyofsleep
89
Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
4,073 members
129 reviews
3.9
Member
Lou.Clifton
90
Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
4,886 members
126 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Dilara86, Lou.Clifton,
91
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: Stories
by Harlan Ellison
2,199 members
71 reviews
3.8
Member
macha
92
The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
3,797 members
118 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
macha, aulsmith,
Explanations
aulsmith: It's alternate history but the Bardo sequences add a note of fantasy.
93
Momo
by Michael Ende
4,612 members
100 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Dilara86
94
Replay
by Ken Grimwood
3,672 members
153 reviews
4.1
Member
Lou.Clifton
95
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
11,556 members
318 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Dilara86, Lou.Clifton,
96
The Dream of Perpetual Motion
by Dexter Palmer
627 members
43 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Lou.Clifton
97
Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland
1,651 members
58 reviews
3.8
Member
Lou.Clifton
98
When She Woke
by Hillary Jordan
1,781 members
181 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Lou.Clifton
99
The Last Policeman
by Ben H. Winters
2,360 members
202 reviews
3.8
Member
Lou.Clifton
100
Winter Well: Speculative Novellas About Older Women
by Kay T. Holt
27 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Lou.Clifton