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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.… (more)
This is a solid anthology that invites critical discussion. I've actually seen several of these stories before, in various collections. It's interesting to see them in this editorial context, and to think about what they may (or may not) have in common. ( )
Verdict: overall probably not my thing. I really liked some of the stories. Some of the ones that didn’t work for me really didn’t work for me. When a story is trying to mess with me, it better succeed well or I’m just gonna be irritable. ( )
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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I Want My 20th Century Schizoid Art, Parts I-IV / Barth Anderson, Christopher Barzak, Hannah Wolf Bowen, Hal Duncan, Jon Hansen, Jed Hartman, Meghan McCarron, David Moles, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Christopher Rowe, David J. Schwartz, and Bruce Sterling
Slipstream, the Genre That Isn't / James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
AI / Carol Emshwiller
The Little Magic Shop / Bruce Sterling
The Healer / Aimee Bender
The Specialist's Hat / Kelly Link
Light and the Sufferer / Jonathan Lethem
Sea Oak / George Saunders
Exhibit H: Torn Pages Discovered in the Vest Pocket of an Unidentified Tourist / Jeff VanderMeer
Hell is the Absence of God / Ted Chiang
Lieserl / Karen Joy Fowler
Bright Morning / Jeffrey Ford
Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes," by Benjamin Rosenbaum / Benjamin Rosenbaum
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