A Working Canon of Slipstream Writings
Readercon 18, July 2007
"I've felt, more strongly as I've grown older, that reality's always
somewhere else. You can't take reality in your hand, it's a perfume and
it's everywhere. But I've never been able to find out where it comes
from, so I'm left wondering, is it real?"
— Peter Barnes, Introduction to Plays: Two
The following list was created by the Panelists on the “Slipstream / Fabulation / Magic
Realism Canon” Panel before we knew that Fabulation and Magic Realism were being
added to the list; neither is considered by any of us to be identical generically to one
another or to Slipstream, though overlaps do occur.
Nominations for a working Slipstream canon were received from F. Brett Cox, Paul Di
Filippo, Ron Drummond, Theodora Goss, John Kessel, Victoria McManus, Graham
Sleight, and Catherynne M. Valente, with supplementary titles suggested by John
Crowley and Kelly Link. The eight panelists then voted on every title on the resulting
list of 264 books (plus four authors whose “complete works” were also nominated),
assigning zero, one, two, or three points to each title. The results were tabulated and
ranked by vote, and then separated into two lists.
On the primary list, “A Working Canon of Slipstream Writings”, which contains 112
books and three authors’ complete works, only works that received ten or more votes
were included. Then, to sharpen the usefulness of the list, the top 27 items, listed in
bold type, can be safely considered “The Core Canon of Slipstream”; these works all
received 15 or more votes each. Only one work, Borges’s Collected Fictions, received
3 votes from all eight panelists, for 24 votes total (though the top nine titles received
20 or more votes each).
In creating the rankings, works sharing a single vote total are ranked chronologically
by publication date, from earliest to latest (though posthumously-published collections
and “complete works” are placed based on the year of the given author’s death). So,
for example, Dhalgren and Burning Your Boats received 21 votes each, but the Delany
is placed first because it’s the earlier work. Yes, the system is somewhat arbitrary,
but the whole enterprise is as well: and this is a working list.
A secondary list, of the bottom 152 titles (plus one author’s complete works), is
provided as a list of “Other Important Non-Canonical Slipstream or Slipstream-related
Writings”.
Two supplementary lists are also appended: A list of women writers of slipstream,
compiled by Theodora Goss from suggestions by panelists (see the previous two lists
for specific suggested titles); and a list of slipstream-related works by the panelists
themselves, compiled by F. Brett Cox.
Panelist Ron Drummond compiled the voting list from panelists’ nominations,
tabulated the voting results, researched the titles, compiled the primary and
secondary lists and wrote their respective introductions.
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The Core Canon of Slipstream
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Collected Fictions (coll 1998), Jorge Luis Borges
Invisible Cities (1972, trans 1974), Italo Calvino
Little, Big (1981), John Crowley
Magic for Beginners (coll 2005), Kelly Link
Dhalgren (1974), Samuel R. Delany
Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Fiction (coll, 1995), Angela Carter
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967, trans 1970), Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
The Ægypt Cycle (1987-2007), John Crowley
Feeling Very Strange (anth 2006), John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly
(eds.)
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (coll 2001)
Stranger Things Happen (coll 2001), Kelly Link
The Lottery and Other Stories (coll 1949), Shirley Jackson
Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Thomas Pynchon
Conjunctions 39 (anth 2002), Peter Straub (ed.)
The Metamorphosis (1915), Franz Kafka
The Trial (1925), Franz Kafka
Orlando (1928), Virginia Woolf
The Castle (1926), Franz Kafka
The complete works of Franz Kafka
V. (1963), Thomas Pynchon
Nights at the Circus (1984), Angela Carter
The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (anth 2007), Kelly Link and
Gavin Grant (eds.)
The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories [UK title Busy About
the Tree of Life] (coll 1988), Pamela Zoline
Foucault's Pendulum (1988, trans 1989), Umberto Eco
Sarah Canary (1991), Karen Joy Fowler
City of Saints and Madmen (coll 2002), Jeff VanderMeer
Interfictions (anth 2007), Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss (eds.)
A Working Slipstream Canon, continued:
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His Monkey Wife (1930), John Collier
Waiting for Godot (1952), Samuel Beckett
The Satanic Verses (1988), Salman Rushdie
Carmen Dog (1990), Carol Emshwiller
Mason & Dixon (1998), Thomas Pynchon
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (coll 2002), Jeffrey Ford
Changing Planes (coll 2003), Ursula K. Le Guin
Bibliomancy (coll 2003), Elizabeth Hand
Novelties and Souvenirs (coll 2004), John Crowley
The complete works of Thomas Pynchon
Naked Lunch (1959), William Burroughs
Giles Goat-Boy (1966), John Barth
Lost in the Funhouse (1968), John Barth
Ada (1969), Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera (1987), Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beloved (1987), Toni Morrison
Verging on the Pertinent (1989), Carol Emshwiller
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The Start of the End of It All (coll 1990), Carol Emshwiller
Was (1992), Geoff Ryman
The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (coll 1994), A.S. Byatt
Black Glass (coll 1997), Karen Joy Fowler
Ciphers (1997), Paul Di Filippo
Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Nalo Hopkinson
The Vintage Book of Amnesia (anth 2001), Jonathan Lethem (ed.)
In the Forest of Forgetting (2007), Theodora Goss
The Complete Stories (coll 1971), Franz Kafka
Finnegans Wake (1939), James Joyce
The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Shirley Jackson
Chimera (1972), John Barth
The Woman Warrior (1976), Maxine Hong Kingston
Slapstick (1976), Kurt Vonnegut
Engine Summer (1979), John Crowley
Fundamental Disch (coll 1980), Thomas M. Disch
Sixty Stories (coll 1981), Donald Barthelme
The House of the Sprits (1982), Isabel Allende
The complete works of Samuel Beckett
Moonwise (1991), Greer Gilman
Brittle Innings (1994), Michael Bishop
Pussy, King of Pirates (1996), Kathy Acker
Humpty Dumpty: An Oval (1996). Damon Knight
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1997), Haruki Murakami
A Season in Hell (1873), Arthur Rimbaud
Ulysses (1922), James Joyce
Lolly Willowes (1926), Sylvia Townsend Warner
Steppenwolf (1927), Herman Hesse
The Waves (1931), Virginia Woolf
The Gormenghast Trilogy (1946-1959), Mervyn Peake
Lanark (1981), Alasdair Gray
Blood and Guts in High School (1984), Kathy Acker
The Bridge (1986), Iain Banks
The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987), Joanna Russ
Vineland (1990), Thomas Pynchon
Adventures in Unhistory (coll 2006), Avram Davidson
As She Climbed Across the Table (1997), Jonathan Lethem
The Godhead Trilogy (Towing Jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, The Eternal
Footman) (1994-99), James Morrow
In the Stone House (coll 2000), Barry Malzberg
Perdido Street Station (2000), China Mieville
Kappa Child (2001), Hiromi Goto
Sister Noon (2001), Karen Joy Fowler
Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories (coll 2002), Carol Emshwiller
Set This House in Order (2003), Matt Ruff
Black Juice (2004), Margo Lanagan
The Labyrinth (2004), Catherynne M. Valente
Map of Dreams (2006), M. Rickert
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), Luigi Pirandello
The Glass Bead Game (1943), Hermann Hesse
Ice (1967), Anna Kavan
City Life (coll 1970), Donald Barthelme
Grendel (1971), John Gardner
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97. Strangeness (anth 1977), Thomas M. Disch and Charles Naylor (eds)
98. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Milan Kundera
99. Empire of the Sun (1984), J.G. Ballard
100. Days Between Stations (1985), Steve Erickson
101. Tainaron: Mail From Another City (1985), Leena Krohn
102. Forty Stories (coll 1987), Donald Barthelme
103. Medea: The Sorceress (1991), Diane Wakoski
104. X, Y (1993), Michael Blumlein
105. The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye (coll 1996), Jonathan Lethem
106. Godmother Night (1996), Rachel Pollack
107. Big Fish (1998), Daniel Wallace
108. House of Leaves (2000), Mark Danielewski
109. The Library (2002), Zoran Zivkovic
110. The Impossible Bird (2002), Patrick O'Leary
111. The Lovely Bones (2002), Alice Sebold
112. Pattern Recognition (2003), William Gibson
113. Cloud Atlas (2004), David Mitchell
114. Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (2004), F. Brett Cox and
Andy Duncan (eds.)
115. The Girl in the Glass (2005), Jeffrey Ford
Alphabetical List of Single-Author Works (* = stories)
Acker, Kathy
----------Allende, Isabel
Ballard, J. G.
----------Banks, Iain
Barth, John
--------------------Barthelme, Donald
--------------------Beckett, Samuel
----------Bishop, Michael
Blumlein, Michael
Borges, Jorge Luis
Burroughs, William
Byatt, A. S.
Calvino, Italo
Carter, Angela
----------Collier, John
Crowley, John
------------------------------Danielewski, Mark
Blood and Guts in High School
Pussy, King of Pirates
The House of the Sprits
Empire of the Sun
*The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
The Bridge
Giles Goat-Boy
Lost in the Funhouse
Chimera
*City Life
*Sixty Stories
*Forty Stories
(complete works)
Waiting for Godot
Brittle Innings
X, Y
*Collected Fictions
Naked Lunch
*The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye
Invisible Cities
*Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Fiction
Nights at the Circus
His Monkey Wife
Engine Summer
Little, Big
The Ægypt Cycle
*Novelties and Souvenirs
House of Leaves
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1984
1996
1982
1984
2001
1986
1966
1968
1972
1970
1981
1987
1952
1994
1993
1998
1959
1994
1972
1995
1984
1930
1979
1981
2007
2004
2000
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Davidson, Avram
Delany, Samuel R.
Di Filippo, Paul
Disch, Thomas M.
Eco, Umberto
Emshwiller, Carol
------------------------------Erickson, Steve
Ford, Jeffrey
----------Fowler , Karen Joy
--------------------Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
----------Gardner, John
Gibson, William
Gilman, Greer
Goss, Theodora
Goto, Hiromi
Gray, Alasdair
Hand, Elizabeth
Hesse, Herman
----------Hopkinson, Nalo
Jackson, Shirley
----------Joyce, James
----------Kafka, Franz
Kafka, Franz
------------------------------Kavan, Anna
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Knight, Damon
Krohn, Leena
Kundera, Milan
Lanagan, Margo
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lethem, Jonathan
----------Link, Kelly
----------Malzberg, Barry
Mieville, China
Mitchell, David
Morrison, Toni
Morrow, James
Murakami, Haruki
*Adventures in Unhistory
Dhalgren
Ciphers
*Fundamental Disch
Foucault's Pendulum
Verging on the Pertinent
Carmen Dog
*The Start of the End of It All
*Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories
Days Between Stations
*The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
The Girl in the Glass
*Black Glass
Sarah Canary
Sister Noon
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Grendel
Pattern Recognition
Moonwise
In the Forest of Forgetting
Kappa Child
Lanark
*Bibliomancy
Steppenwolf
The Glass Bead Game
Brown Girl in the Ring
*The Lottery and Other Stories
The Haunting of Hill House
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
(complete works)
The Metamorphosis
The Trial
The Castle
*The Complete Stories
Ice
The Woman Warrior
Humpty Dumpty: An Oval
Tainaron: Mail From Another City
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Black Juice
*Changing Planes
*The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye
As She Climbed Across the Table
*Stranger Things Happen
*Magic for Beginners
*In the Stone House
Perdido Street Station
Cloud Atlas
Beloved
The Godhead Trilogy
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
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2006
1974
1997
1980
1988
1989
1990
1990
2002
1985
2002
2005
1997
1991
2001
1967
1987
1971
2003
1991
2007
2001
1981
2003
1927
1943
1998
1949
1959
1922
1939
1915
1925
1926
1971
1967
1976
1996
1985
1984
2004
2003
1996
1997
2001
2005
2000
2000
2004
1987
1999
1997
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Nabokov, Vladimir
O'Leary, Patrick
Peake, Mervyn
Pirandello, Luigi
Pollack, Rachel
Pynchon, Thomas
----------------------------------------Rickert, M.
Rimbaud, Arthur
Ruff, Matt
Rushdie, Salman
Russ, Joanna
Ryman, Geoff
Sebold, Alice
Valente, Catherynne M.
VanderMeer, Jeff
Vonnegut, Kurt
Wakoski, Diane
Wallace, Daniel
Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Woolf, Virginia
----------Zivkovic, Zoran
Zoline, Pamela
Ada
The Impossible Bird
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Godmother Night
(complete works)
V.
Gravity's Rainbow
Vineland
Mason & Dixon
Map of Dreams
A Season in Hell
Set This House in Order
The Satanic Verses
The Hidden Side of the Moon
Was
The Lovely Bones
The Labyrinth
*City of Saints and Madmen
Slapstick
Medea: The Sorceress
Big Fish
Lolly Willowes
Orlando
The Waves
The Library
*The Heat Death of the Universe
1969
2002
1946
1921
1996
1963
1973
1990
1998
2006
1873
2003
1988
1987
1992
2002
2004
2002
1976
1991
1998
1926
1928
1931
2002
1988
Other Important Slipstream Writings
Here follows a secondary list including the further 152 titles (plus one author’s
complete works), i.e., those titles from the original list of 264 (+ 4) that received nine
or fewer votes each. Works are listed alphabetically, with the vote tally for each title
given in the rightmost column (with a few late additions to the list excepted).
The panelists’ consensus, represented by the top ranked titles on the primary list, has
long since unraveled by the time we get to the items on the secondary list. Because a
large majority of the works on this secondary list received only single nominations
(though far more often than not each of those works received votes from more than
one panelist), it seemed important to identify the nominators; the nominators’ initials
are therefore listed following each title.
I think this secondary list is very important, because it contains many relatively
obscure titles that are of high quality and deserving of attention but failed to rank
higher due to their very unfamiliarity. (For example, I personally feel that Steve
Erickson's work is quintessentially Slipstream, that he is the most characteristically
Slipstream author—yet only one of his books made it onto the top-115, and that near
the bottom.) Every member of this panel has nominated works of high quality but low
visibility, works that deserve to be more widely read and discussed. Our hope is that
this list will help to bring these neglected works to a wider audience.
– Ron Drummond
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In the spirit of this enterprise and as progenitor of this project, I’ve added five more
titles. No doubt the list would be different if you’d been involved.
- Eric M. Van
The Nominators: F. Brett Cox (BC), Paul Di Filippo (PD), Ron Drummond (RD),
Theodora Goss (TG), John Kessel (JK), Victoria McManus (VM), Graham Sleight (GS),
Catherynne M. Valente (CV); John Crowley (JC), Kelly Link (KL), Eric M. Van (EV)
Agee, Joel
Aldiss, Brian
Amis, Martin
Atwood, Margaret
----------Auster, Paul
Aylett, Steve
Baker, Nicholson
----------Ballard, J. G.
Banks, Iain
Bantock, Nick
Barnes, Peter
Barrett, Jr., Neal
Barry, Lynda
Barry, Max
Barthelme, Donald
Blumlein, Michael
Bowman, David
----------Bradfield, Scott
Brockmeier, Kevin
Buzzati, Dino
Cantor, Jay
Carey, Edward
Carroll, Jonathan
----------Chesteron, G. K.
Childress, Mark
----------Christopher, Nicholas
----------Cixous, Helene
Clarke, Susanna
Coover, Robert
----------De Niro, Alan
Delany, Samuel R.
----------DeLillo, Don
--------------------Dick, Philip K.
Dinesen, Isak
----------Duncan, Hal
In the House of My Fear
Report on Probability A
London Fields
The Blind Assasin
The Handmaid's Tale
New York Trilogy
Lint
The Fermata
The Mezzanine
The Kindness of Women
Walking on Glass
The Museum at Purgatory
Red Noses (play)
The Hereafter Gang
Cruddy
Company
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
The Brains of Rats (coll)
Bunny Modern
Let the Dog Drive
The Secret Life of Houses
A Brief History of the Dead
The Tartar Steppe
Krazy Kat: A Novel in Five Panels
Observatory Mansions
Bones of the Moon
The Land of Laughs
The Man Who Was Thursday
Gone for Good
Tender
Franklin Flyer
Trip to the Stars
Le Livre de Promethea
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Pricksongs and Descants
The Universal Baseball Association
Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
The Mad Man
The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals
Mao II
The Names
White Noise
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Seven Gothic Tales
Winter’s Tales
Vellum
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RD
PD
GS
TG
TG
GS
PD
JC
PD
RD
GS
CV
BC
GS
KL
PD
JK
GS
PD
PD
GS
JK
PD, RD
EV
PD
GS
GS
PD
BC
BC
PD
PD
CV
TG
BC, JK
EV
BC
RD
RD
RD
RD
BC, GS
EV, RD
TG
KL
CV
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7
6
5
5
5
3
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9
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4
7
9
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7
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5
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9
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8
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Durrell, Lawrence
Erickson, Steve
----------------------------------------------------------------------Evenson, Brian
Faber, Michel
Fowles, John
----------Gaddis, William
Garner, Alan
Geary, Patricia
Gloss, Molly
Goldstein, Lisa
Grant, Richard
Hansen, Brooks
Harrison, M. John
--------------------Horsley, Kate
----------Houellebecq, Michel
Hulme, Keri
Ingall, Rachel
Ionesco, Eugene
Jackson, Shelley
Joyce, Graham
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Knox, Elizabeth
Koja, Kathe
Kundera, Milan
----------Kushner, Tony
LaFarge, Paul
Landolfi, Tommaso
Laxness, Halldor
----------Le Guin, Ursula K.
Leiber, Fritz
Leven, Jeremy
Lispector, Clarice
Mamet, David
----------Mann, Thomas
Martin, Valerie
McAllister, Bruce
McCarthy, Cormac
McDonagh, Martin
McEwan, Ian
McGuane, Thomas
Metzger, Thom
Mieville, China
The Alexandria Quartet
The complete works of Steve Erickson
Amnesiascope
Arc d'X
Leap Year
Our Ecstatic Days
Rubicon Beach
The Sea Came In At Midnight
Tours of the Black Clock
Father of Lies
Under the Skin
A Maggot
The Magus
The Recognitions
Red Shift
Strange Toys
Wild Life
Tourists
Views from the Oldest House
The Chess Garden
The Course of the Heart
Light
Things That Never Happen
The Changeling of Finnistuath
Confessions of a Pagan Nun
The Possibility of an Island
The Bone People
Times Like These
Les Rhinoceros
Half Life
The Facts of Life
Tripmaster Monkey
Black Oxen
Kink
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Immortality
Angels in America
An Artist of the Missing
An Autumn Story
Independent People
World Light
Unlocking the Air
The Leiber Chronicles
Satan: His Psychoanalysis and Cure . . .
The Stream of Life (1973
The Cryptogram (play)
The Water Engine (play)
Doctor Faustus
Mary Reilly
Dream Baby
The Road
The Pillowman
The Child in Time
Ninety-Two in the Shade
Big Gurl
The Tain
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GS
RD, GS
RD
RD
GS
RD
RD
RD
RD, GS
PD
PD
BC
BC, GS
GS
EV
KL, GS
VM
JK
GS
CV
GS
CV
GS
RD
RD
PD, RD
RD
KL
TG
KL
GS
VM
KL
PD
TG
TG
GS
PD
PD, RD
RD
RD
KL
GS
EV
CV
BC
BC
TG
RD
GS
BC
GS
GS
GS
PD
GS
8
8
7
7
7
7
8
8
9
3
2
6
8
7
-5
8
8
7
4
9
-9
-7
4
-3
4
8
5
6
5
5
9
6
3
4
3
5
6
9
9
-6
7
5
9
-4
5
4
7
4
4
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Mitchell, David
----------Mooney, Ted
Moorcock, Michael
Morris, Jan
Morrison, Toni
Morrow, James
Nin, Anais
O'Brien, Flann
Palmer, Thomas
Park, Paul
Pavic, Milorad
Percy, Walker
----------Phillips, Holly
Pollack, Rachel
Powers, Tim
Priest, Christopher
----------Roberts, Keith
Rogers, Bruce Holland
Rucker, Rudy
----------Russ, Joanna
----------Russo, Richard Paul
Ryman, Geoff
--------------------Saramago, Jose
----------Saunders, George
----------Shepard, Lucius
Shonagon, Sei
Sinisalo, Johanna
Sladek, John
Smith, Ali
Stephenson, Neal
Stewart, Sean
----------Straub, Peter
Thomas, D.M.
Thomas, Dylan
Thomson, David
Tuttle, Lisa
Ventura, Michael
--------------------Verhelst, Peter
Wallace, Daniel
Welty, Eudora
Wilson, Robert Anton
Windling, Terri
Winterson, Jeanette
Wolfe, Gene
Ghostwritten
Number 9 Dream
Easy Travel to Other Planets
Mother London
Hav
Sula
Only Begotten Daughter
House of Incest
The Third Policeman
Dream Science
Three Marys
Landscape Painted with Tea
Love in the Ruins
The Thanatos Syndrome
In the Palace of Repose
Unquenchable Fire
Last Call
The Affirmation
The Glamour
Grainne
The Keyhole Opera
The 57th Franz Kafka (coll)
Saucer Wisdom
The Two of Them
The Zanzibar Cat
Terminal Visions
The Child Garden
Lust
The Unconquered Country
Blindness
The Double
In Persuasion Nation
Pastoralia
Valentine
The Pillow Book
Troll: A Love Story (aka "Not Before Sundown")
Bugs
The Accidental
The Diamond Age
Galveston
Mockingbird
lost boy lost girl
The White Hotel
Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices
Suspects
The Pillow Friend
The Death of Frank Sinatra
Night Time Losing Time
The Zoo Where You’re Fed to God
Tonguecat (2003)
Ray in Reverse
The Robber Bridegroom
The Illuminatus Trilogy
The Wood Wife
Gut Symmetries
Free Live Free
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PD, GS, CV
GS
GS
GS
GS
TG
BC, JK
CV
GS
GS
RD
CV
BC
BC
TG
GS
GS
GS
GS
BC
GS
JK
PD
RD
KL
GS
RD
GS
RD
PD, RD, GS
RD
BC, JK
JK, GS
GS
CV
GS
GS
GS
CV
GS
VM
BC, GS
BC
CV
GS
VM
RD
RD
RD
CV
BC
KL
PD
TG
CV
GS
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6
8
6
5
4
8
7
8
4
6
8
3
4
9
5
9
7
9
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6
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9
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8
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7
4
6
8
7
7
7
7
4
6
4
5
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6
8
6
9
8
6
A Working Canon of Slipstream Writings / July 2007
----------Woolf, Virginia
Wright, Grahame
Wright, Stephen
Peace
A Haunted House and Other Stories
Jog Rummage
M31: A Family Romance
JK, GS
TG
PD
GS
9
9
5
7
Women Writers of Slipstream (See Above Lists for Titles)
Kathy Acker
Isabel Allende
Margaret Atwood
Lynda Barry
A. S.Byatt
Angela Carter
Helene Cixous
Susanna Clarke
Isak Dinesen
Carol Emshwiller
Karen Joy Fowler
Patricia Geary
Greer Gilman
Molly Gloss
Lisa Goldstein
Theodora Goss
Hiromi Goto
Elizabeth Hand
Nalo Hopkinson
Kate Horsley
Keri Hulme
Rachel Ingalls
Shelley Jackson
Shirley Jackson
Anna Kavan
Maxine Hong Kingston
Elizabeth Knox
Kathe Koja
Leena Krohn
Margo Lanagan
Ursula K. Le Guin
Kelly Link
Clarice Lispector
Valerie Martin
Toni Morrison
Anais Nin
Holly Phillips
Rachel Pollack
M. Rickert
Joanna Russ
Alice Sebold
Sei Shonagon
Johanna Sinisalo
Ali Smith
Lisa Tuttle
Catherynne M. Valente
Diane Wakoski
Sylvia Townsend
Warner
Eudora Welty
Terri Windling
Jeanette Winterson
Virginia Woolf
Pamela Zoline
A List of Slipstream Works by Some of Your Humble Panelists,
Suggested by Themselves
F. Brett Cox: “Flannery on Stage” (Indigenous Fiction, June 2001); “When John Moore Shot Carl Bell”
(Carriage House Review, Winter 2001); “My Whole World Lies Waiting” (Rabid Transit: Long Voyages,
Great Lies, 2006)
Ron Drummond: “The Frequency of Liberation” (Science Fiction Eye #12, Summer 1993; available at
http://www.studiolarz.com/erickson/articles/frequencyofliberation.html
Paul Di Filippo: Ciphers (Permeable Press, 1997, novel)
Theodora Goss: In the Forest of Forgetting (Prime Books, 2006, collection)
John Kessel: "Herman Melville: Space Opera Virtuoso" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,
January 1980), reprinted in the author’s collection The Pure Product (Tor, 1997); "Another Orphan"
(F&SF, September 1982), reprinted in the author’s collection Meeting in Infinity (Arkham House, 1992);
"The Lecturer" (Light Years and Dark, ed. Michael Bishop, Berkley, 1984), Meeting in Infinity; "Man"
(Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine, May 1992), Meeting in Infinity; "The Family Vacation" (Infinite Matrix,
September 2002); "The Baum Plan for Financial Independence" (SciFiction, March 2004); "The Red
Phone" (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, July 2005); "Downtown"
Graham Sleight: review of The Vintage Book of Amnesia (Lethem, ed.) at
http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2006/09/the_vinta-comments.shtml encapsulates much of
his thinking on the topic.
Catherynne M. Valente: The Labyrinth (Prime Books, 2004, novel); Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams
(Prime Books, 2005, novel)
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