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Speculative Fiction: Slipstream Literature

Description: This list was created at Readercon 2007. I have added some later works by the same authors that would also qualify. Thumbs up books you would recommend; thumbs down books not worth reading.

Members: 12 participating members (show all)

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1
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
38,361 members, 603 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: krazy4katz (1), andomck (2), amanda4242 (2), merrystar (6), krisa (6), ahef1963 (8)

Thumbs down: sturlington

2
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
9,622 members, 155 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: andomck (1), thecoroner (2), ahef1963 (4), amanda4242 (5), krisa (5), aulsmith (16)

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3
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
17,157 members, 371 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), aulsmith (1), krazy4katz (2), krisa (2)

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4
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
34,835 members, 1,008 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: krisa (1), krazy4katz (3), amanda4242 (3), ahef1963 (10), thecoroner (14)

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5
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
14,736 members, 353 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (1), krisa (3), krazy4katz (4), ahef1963 (12), thecoroner (13)

Thumbs down: sturlington

6
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
10,851 members, 228 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), thecoroner (4), andomck (7), krisa (34)

7
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
9,352 members, 398 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (2), ahef1963 (3), krisa (4), krazy4katz (5)

Thumbs down: sturlington

8
Ulysses
by James Joyce
20,439 members, 289 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1), kara.shamy (2), aulsmith (15), ahef1963 (19)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Explanations:

sturlington (0): This was in the original canon list, but perhaps it's more a forerunner of slipstream, which seems to be more later 20th century.

aulsmith (15): If you don't take it too seriously or worry too much about what it all means, this is a pretty good book. I'm not sure what's slipstream about it.… (more)

9
Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
22,315 members, 521 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: merrystar (1), andomck (4), amanda4242 (8), krisa (17)

Thumbs down: sturlington

10
Air: Or, Have Not Have
by Geoff Ryman
805 members, 29 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: sturlington (1), aulsmith (4), krisa (16)

11
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
6,885 members, 336 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: andomck (3), ahef1963 (5), amanda4242 (7), aulsmith (12)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Explanations:

sturlington (0): This one was on the original canon list. But thinking about it, there is that sense when reading it that you're not sure what's real.

aulsmith (12): This is a good book, but I think it's fairly straight-forward horror, rather than slipstream

12
The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster
8,780 members, 147 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: Tomleesteenboek (1), thecoroner (8), amanda4242 (11), krisa (35)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Explanations:

aulsmith (0): I couldn't get past page 10

13
The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien
3,715 members, 104 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: sturlington (2), andomck (8), ahef1963 (17)

14
The Lottery and Other Stories
by Shirley Jackson
2,860 members, 70 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), andomck (9), aulsmith (13), krisa (28)

Thumbs down: sturlington

15
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
15,813 members, 340 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: andomck (6), thecoroner (12), ahef1963 (21)

16
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
11,157 members, 141 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), amanda4242 (6), thecoroner (7), aulsmith (14)

Thumbs down: sturlington, krisa

17
Blindness
by José Saramago
11,250 members, 352 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: krisa (10), ahef1963 (14), thecoroner (15), andomck (16)

Thumbs down: sturlington

18
Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
3,016 members, 157 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: sturlington (3), kara.shamy (3)

19
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
by A. S. Byatt
1,256 members, 15 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: mkbird (1), krisa (31)

20
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
11,422 members, 302 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: andomck (5), krisa (11), aulsmith (11)

Thumbs down: sturlington

21
Sarah Canary
by Karen Joy Fowler
673 members, 19 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: mkbird (2), krisa (33)

22
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
1,027 members, 66 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: sturlington (4), kara.shamy (11)

23
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
7,918 members, 175 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: merrystar (2), krisa (37)

24
Independent People
by Halldór Laxness
2,401 members, 83 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (5), thecoroner (9)

25
The Wood Wife
by Terri Windling
923 members, 38 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: merrystar (5), mkbird (11)

26
After Alice: A Novel
by Gregory Maguire
993 members, 63 reviews
2.83 stars (2.83 stars)

Lists: sturlington (5), kara.shamy (12)

27
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
19,630 members, 252 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (1), krazy4katz (6), andomck (10)

Thumbs down: sturlington, ahef1963

28
The Child Garden
by Geoff Ryman
650 members, 15 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (7), mkbird (10)

29
House Of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
12,402 members, 315 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (4), thecoroner (22)

30
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
by Mark Dunn
3,253 members, 229 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: sturlington (6), amanda4242 (13)

31
The Robber Bridegroom
by Eudora Welty
444 members, 13 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: mkbird (6), amanda4242 (14)

32
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
9,676 members, 169 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: krazy4katz (7), andomck (12)

33
Was
by Geoff Ryman
839 members, 15 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (5), krisa (32)

34
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
38,497 members, 578 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), andomck (11), thecoroner (17), krisa (78)

Thumbs down: sturlington, kara.shamy

Explanations:

sturlington (0): Magical realism as a forerunner to slipstream.

35
Transition
by Iain M. Banks
1,692 members, 63 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: sturlington (7), krisa (29)

36
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
3,153 members, 70 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (10), krisa (24)

Explanations:

aulsmith (10): This isn't as profound as Delany wants it to be, but it does offer an entree into the hidden world of sexual minorities.

37
The Child in Time
by Ian McEwan
2,293 members, 43 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), krisa (26)

38
The Accidental
by Ali Smith
2,540 members, 103 reviews
3.21 stars (3.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), krisa (25)

39
The Double
by José Saramago
2,116 members, 51 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25), krisa (27)

40
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
8,358 members, 285 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: andomck (22), krisa (36)

41
The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard
by J. G. Ballard
608 members, 8 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (16), krisa (55)

42
The City & The City
by China Miéville
5,267 members, 325 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: andomck (23), krisa (39)

43
Sleeping in Flame
by Jonathan Carroll
687 members, 19 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: andomck (25), krisa (50)

44
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
by Vladimir Nabokov
3,531 members, 61 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (3)

45
Lust
by Geoff Ryman
209 members, 8 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (3)

46
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
36,362 members, 1,205 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: krisa (7), ahef1963 (7)

Thumbs down: sturlington

47
Sula
by Toni Morrison
6,444 members, 77 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (4)

48
The Waves
by Virginia Woolf
4,355 members, 63 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (5)

49
Landscape Painted with Tea
by Milorad Pavić
468 members, 6 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: mkbird (5)

50
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
15,337 members, 635 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: sturlington (8), amanda4242 (10)

Thumbs down: krisa

51
The Diamond Age
by Neal Stephenson
10,145 members, 185 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6), krisa (19)

Thumbs down: sturlington

52
The Four-Gated City
by Doris Lessing
642 members, 6 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (7)

53
The Two of Them
by Joanna Russ
281 members, 1 review
3.41 stars (3.41 stars)

Lists: mkbird (7)

54
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
4,557 members, 49 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (6), thecoroner (10), krisa (40)

Thumbs down: sturlington, aulsmith

Explanations:

aulsmith (0): There's a movie of this, believe it or not, and I did enjoy watching the Liffey flow and hearing parts of this read, but I'd never bother to try and read it through as a novel.… (more)

55
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
by Virginia Woolf
613 members, 7 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (8)

56
Moonwise
by Greer Ilene Gilman
247 members, 5 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: mkbird (8)

57
The Bone Clocks
by David Mitchell
3,994 members, 261 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: sturlington (9), krisa (14)

Thumbs down: kara.shamy

58
Troll: A Love Story
by Johanna Sinisalo
906 members, 29 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (9)

Explanations:

aulsmith (9): A little slow in the middle, but the end is worth it.

59
The Labyrinth
by Catherynne M. Valente
180 members, 9 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: mkbird (9)

60
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
5,960 members, 336 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (9), andomck (17), ahef1963 (18)

Thumbs down: sturlington, merrystar

61
Cobweb Bride
by Vera Nazarian
263 members, 30 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (13)

62
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
15,107 members, 482 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), andomck (18)

Thumbs down: sturlington

63
Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence
by Martin Amis
2,761 members, 48 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (15)

64
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
5,261 members, 154 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: krisa (13), andomck (19)

Thumbs down: sturlington

65
Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
4,287 members, 280 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: sturlington (10), andomck (27)

Thumbs down: amanda4242

66
Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel
by Kate Horsley
553 members, 19 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (16)

69
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
9,445 members, 123 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (20)

70
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
11,292 members, 222 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (21)

71
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
10,370 members, 122 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22)

72
The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
5,983 members, 145 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

73
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
4,612 members, 31 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (23)

74
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
9,446 members, 250 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: andomck (20), krisa (22)

Thumbs down: sturlington

75
Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
8,176 members, 158 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: krisa (21), andomck (24)

Thumbs down: sturlington

76
The Scar
by China Miéville
4,512 members, 119 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: krisa (38)

77
Little, Big
by John Crowley
3,717 members, 103 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: krisa (41)

78
The Female Man
by Joanna Russ
1,838 members, 46 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

Lists: andomck (21), krisa (30)

Thumbs down: sturlington

79
Aegypt
by John Crowley
1,043 members, 18 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: krisa (44)

80
Pretty Monsters: Stories
by Kelly Link
1,093 members, 58 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: krisa (45)

81
The Wooden Sea
by Jonathan Carroll
791 members, 20 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: krisa (46)

82
Bones of the Moon
by Jonathan Carroll
801 members, 20 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: krisa (47)

83
Only Begotten Daughter
by James Morrow
796 members, 16 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: krisa (48)

84
White Apples
by Jonathan Carroll
724 members, 17 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: krisa (49)

85
Outside the Dog Museum
by Jonathan Carroll
568 members, 15 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: krisa (51)

86
The Marriage of Sticks
by Jonathan Carroll
526 members, 10 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: krisa (52)

87
Mother London
by Michael Moorcock
566 members, 5 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: krisa (53)

88
Daemonomania
by John Crowley
507 members, 6 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: krisa (54)

89
A Trip To The Stars: A Novel
by Nicholas Christopher
457 members, 12 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: krisa (56)

90
Voice of Our Shadow
by Jonathan Carroll
460 members, 12 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: krisa (57)

91
Glass Soup
by Jonathan Carroll
415 members, 13 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: krisa (58)

92
From the Teeth of Angels
by Jonathan Carroll
424 members, 8 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: krisa (59)

93
Galveston
by Sean Stewart
365 members, 12 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: krisa (60)

94
Mockingbird
by Sean Stewart
348 members, 6 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: krisa (61)

95
Kissing the Beehive
by Jonathan Carroll
337 members, 4 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: krisa (62)

96
The Girl in the Glass
by Jeffrey Ford
326 members, 23 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: krisa (63)

97
Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction
by John Crowley
299 members, 1 review
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: krisa (64)

98
The Course of the Heart
by M. John Harrison
300 members, 7 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

Lists: krisa (65)

99
The Sea Came in at Midnight
by Steve Erickson
290 members, 12 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: krisa (66)

100
Arc d'X
by Steve Erickson
272 members, 5 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: krisa (67)

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