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Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
| Author: | John Kessel James Patrick Kelly |
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Tachyon Publications, 2006 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
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.
Contents:
- Al - (1972) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
- The Little Magic Shop - (1987) - short story by Bruce Sterling
- The Healer - (1998) - short story by Aimee Bender
- The Specialist's Hat - (1998) - short story by Kelly Link
- Light and the Sufferer - (1995) - novelette by Jonathan Lethem
- Sea Oak - (1998) - novelette by George Saunders
- Exhibit H: Torn Pages Discovered in the Vest Pocket of an Unidentified Tourist - (1998) - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
- Hell Is the Absence of God - (2001) - novelette by Ted Chiang
- Lieserl - (1990) - short story by Karen Joy Fowler
- Bright Morning - (2002) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes" by Benjamin Rosenbaum - (2004) - novelette by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- The God of Dark Laughter - (2001) - short story by Michael Chabon
- The Rose in Twelve Petals - (2002) - short story by Theodora Goss
- The Lions Are Asleep This Night - (1986) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
- You Have Never Been Here - (2006) - short story by M. Rickert
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