Slipstream College Essays Samples For Students

Defining the Odd: An Exploration of Slipstream

When Bruce Sterling published his article “Slipstream” in SF Eye #5 (n.pag..), he defined a genre that from then on would be characterized by a variety of words. He said that slipstream “is a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange; the way that living in the twentieth century makes you feel, if you are a person of a certain sensibility”. He described this new kind of writing as “a fantastic, surreal sometimes, speculative on occasion, but not rigorously so”. The whole of the article narrates how the literary science fiction genre’s chance at being “worthy literature” has passed, and explained ...

The Story “The God of Dark Laughter” is the one I found as the best example of a slipstream fiction. I found the setting, narrative voice, and allusions to popular culture and mainstream literature that are used in the story as the most captivating of all the other stories.
The setting of the occurrences in the story is strange, eerie and raises issues that border on fantasy, literary fiction and reality. The setting involves the discovery of a body in the woods by two boys who had spent some time in the same woods hunting squirrels. The body that is ...

Exhibiting an understanding of "Slipstream" literature as part of this course requires using three particular stories incorporating subjective selections from the three pieces exemplifying the thesis as follows. These three stories include Jeffrey Ford's "Bright Morning", Benjamin Rosenbloom's "Biographical Notes to a Discourse 'On the Nature of Causality, with Airplanes'", and Howard Waldrop's "The Lions Are Asleep This Night". The following discourse explores and defines a personal and subjective understanding of Slipstream as literature asking the reader to look at the world in a strangely different and often possibly legitimate manner through the eyes of the authors - whether the reader agrees ...