Feeling Very Strange The Slipstream Anthology

by Kelly, James Patrick; Kessel, John

• ISBN13: 9781892391353
• ISBN10: 189239135X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Tachyon Pubns
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Summary

Intending to establish a canon for the controversial slipstream science-fiction subgenre, the editors of this anthology have brought together a group of convention-defying tales set in vivid and disorienting dreamscapes that offer no distinction between reality and hallucination. A cross between the literary surrealism of Franz Kafka and escapist-popular-fiction, this ambitious new speciessometimes also called interstitial fictionis exemplified here in stories by Carol Emshwiller, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, and George Saunders.

Author Biography

James Patrick Kelly is the winner of two Hugo Awards and is the author of Burn, Think Like a Dinosaur, and Wildlife. He is a columnist for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and serves as chair of the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. He lives in Nottingham, New Hampshire. John Kessel is a Nebula, Sturgeon, Tiptree, and Locus award winner and the author of Corrupting Dr. Nice, Good News from Outer Space, and The Pure Product. He teaches science fiction, fantasy, and fiction writing at North Carolina State University and his criticism has appeared in Foundation, Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Age. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
John Kessel
James Patrick Kelly
AI	3	(11)
Carol Emshwiller
The Little Magic Shop	14	(13)
Bruce Sterling
The Healer	27	(9)
Aimee Bender
I Want My 20th-Century Schizoid Art -- I	36	(76)
The Specialist's Hat	39	(14)
Kelly Link
Light and the Sufferer	53	(34)
Jonathan Lethem
Sea Oak	87	(25)
George Saunders
I Want My 20th-Century Schizoid Art -- II	112	(69)
Exhibit H: Torn Pages Discovered in the Vest Pocket of an Unidentified Tourist	116	(7)
Jeff Vander Meer
Hell is the Absence of God	123	(28)
Ted Chiang
Lieserl	151	(8)
Karen Joy Fowler
Bright Morning	159	(22)
Jeffrey Ford
I Want My 20th-Century Schizoid Art -- III	181	(65)
Biographical Notes to ``A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-planes,'' by Benjamin Rosenbaum	185	(23)
Benjamin Rosenbaum
The God of Dark Laughter	208	(20)
Michael Chabon
The Rose in Twelve Petals	228	(18)
Theodora Goss
I Want My 20th-Century Schizoid Art -- IV	246	(39)
The Lions Are Asleep This Night	250	(22)
Howard Waldrop
You Have Never Been Here	272	(13)
M. Rickert
Author Notes	285