Slipstreams...

[jeregenest]

Christopher Priest has a list of his favorite 'slipstream books'. he defines slipstream as

Slipstream does not define a category, but suggests an approach, an attitude, an interest or obsession with thinking the unthinkable or doing the undoable. Slipstream can be visionary, unreliable, odd or metaphysical. It's not magical realism: it's a larger concept that contains magical realism. Some familiar recent slipstream examples: Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, the films Memento or Being John Malkovich, the opera Jerry Springer. Other novelists who have from time to time carried the slipstream torch include Anthony Burgess, Haruki Murakami, Don DeLillo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Banville, John Fowles, Paul Auster and Dino Buzatti.

A very fun list of books, most of which I've read (and those I haven't I've already put in ILL requests for). I need to pondr this definition and list in relationship to gaming, or at least my style of gaming.

Comments

[bluegargantua]

Hrm...

"Light" by M. John Harrison looks particularly good.

Did you get a chance to read "The Prestige"?

Tom

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Light is perhaps one of the most incredible pieces of space SF I've read in years. I highly recommend it. I wish I owned a copy so I could lend it to you.

I liked The Prestige a lot. I'll probably post a mini-review on it. I'll definitely be readin a whole lot more Priest in upcoming months.

[fuschia.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome list...I just read "The Knife Thrower," and was blown away...

Thanks for sharing this!

Fuschia