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I just came across this term, meaning, from what I can gather, 'on the border between genre and mainstream fiction.' Representative authors seem to be Jeff VanderMeer, KJ Bishop, Angelica Gorodischer, Ian MacLeod, Matt Dinniman, Jeffrey Thomas, and Kelly Link. Sorry if I just got it all wrong, but it all seems to me Ursula Leguinish, so I'm excited. Can anybody share any insight?

― otto, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I called Kelly Link a genre-bender in a review, and I'm still not sure if that's an embarassingly stupid coinage...

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

har har I meant embarrasssingde.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Link is a fantasy writer - literary fantasy. The term "Slipstream" has been applied to books that, while not being genre books, do not subscribe to consensus reality. "The Naked Lunch" would be an example. I don't find it a useful term myself.

― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought steve erickson was considered the ultimate slipstream writer.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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