9781892391353 - Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st printing. 288pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "Feeling strange? Hold that thought. [] 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. [] Slipstream. Science fiction crossed with Borges and Calvino. [] These ambitious stories of visionary strangeness defy the conventions of science fiction. Tales by Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders, and others pull the reader into a vivid dreamspace and embrace the knowledge that life today is increasingly surreal." [publisher copy] "In 1989 sf writer Bruce Sterling coined the term 'slipstream' to denote a kind of story that was neither sf nor fantasy, exactly, but that was showing up in all the places that sf and fantasy did; a kind of story that used sf and fantasy elements within otherwise realistic, or at least consistent, settings to provoke a feeling of strangeness or, better, feeling at home, strangely. After every three stories or so in editors Kelly and Kessel's pick of representative slipstream stories, excerpts from several young writers' blog exchange 17 years after Sterling's essay carry on the analysis, and it's interesting--but, oh, these stories! The authors are mavericks old and new: such travelers from genre to mainstream and vice versa as Aimee Bender, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Karen Joy Fowler; longtime unclassifiables Carol Emshwiller and Howard Waldrop; new small-press stars Kelly Link and Jeff VanderMeer; two quietly grandiose weird imaginations who've broken onto the big publishers' lists, Jeffrey Ford and Ted Chiang; and virtual newcomers M. Rickert, Theodora Goss, and Benjamin Rosenbaum. Oh, and Bruce Sterling, whose 'Little Magic Shop' is perhaps the tamest of a wild bunch. How wild? Try Rosenbaum's Arabian Nights-ish alternate-history tale with the long, academic-sounding name. Try Fowler's double-time-lined 'Lieserl,' about Albert Einstein's forsaken daughter. Try Bender's 'Healer,' and ask what world it's set in. Don't stop until all have been read."--Booklist. "At last we have our definitive collection. . . And once again, we can rejoice that revolution after revolution will be printed, not televised."--Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite bright & collectible.