#113 = Volume 38, Part 1 = March 2011
SPECIAL ISSUE ON SLIPSTREAM Edited by Rob Latham
- Introduction and Critical Bibliography
- Bruce Sterling. Slipstream 2
- Symposium on Slipstream
- Paweł Frelik. Of Slipstream and Others: SF and Genre Boundary Discourses
- Justin St. Clair. Borrowed Time: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day and the Victorian Fourth Dimension
- Brooks Landon. Slipstream Then, Slipstream Now: The Curious Connections between William Douglas O’Connor’s “The Brazen Android” and Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days
- T.S. Miller. Preternatural Narration and the Lens of Genre Fiction in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Full text)
- N. Katherine Hayles. Material Entanglements: Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts as Slipstream Novel
- Sarah Dillon. “It’s a Question of Words, Therefore”: Becoming-Animal in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin
- Andrew Wenaus. Fractal Narrative, Paraspace, and Strange Loops: The Paradox of Escape in Jeff Noon’s Vurt
REVIEW-ESSAYS
- Jeff Hicks and Mark Young. Slipstreams, Paraspheres, Interstices: Fictions of the New Millennium: Kelly/Kessel’s The Secret History of Science Fiction, Morrison/Keegan’s Paraspheres, Morrow’s Impossible Realism, Sherman/Goss/Barzak’s Anthology of Interstitial Writing (2 vols.), Team Bizarro’s Introduction to the Bizarro Genre (2 vols.), and Ann/Jeff Vandermeer’s The New Weird
- Joshua Raulerson. Nanoculture and the Future of SF: Milburn’s Nanovision: Engineering the Future
BOOKS IN REVIEW
- Baxter’s J.G. Ballard (Doug Davis)
- Broderick’s Unleashing the Strange: Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Literature (Adam Guzkowski)
- Greven’s Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek (Jennifer Gunnels)
- Magnanini’s Fairy-Tale Science (Jane Donawerth)
- Perlich/Whitt’s Millennial Mythmaking (Adam Frisch)
- Russell’s Trans/Forming Utopia (2 vols.) (Richard Hunt)
- Further Readings in the Slipstream SF Cold War Exhibit (Morgan Hubbard)
- Gernsback Exhibit in Luxembourg (Gérard Kraus)
- PKD Redux (Carol McGuirk)
- New Directions of the European Fantastic
- Notes on Contributors
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