The Master List of Slipstream Books
Compiled by Bruce Sterling and Lawrence Person
This is a master list of all the slipstream works we're currently
aware of. It combines
Bruce Sterling's original slipstream list in Science Fiction Eye
#5 and Lawrence Person's subsequent list in Nova
Express, Volume 5, Issue 2, plus a few works subsequently
published or which both of these missed.
- Abe, Kobo: The Ruined Map, The Ark Sakura,
Inter Ice Age 4, etc.
- Acker, Kathy: Empire of the Senseless, Pussy, King of
the Pirates, etc.
- Ackroyd, Peter: Hawksmoor, Chatterton, The Plato
Papers
- Aldiss, Brian: Life in the West
- Allende, Isabel: Of Love and Shadows, House of Spirits
- Amis, Kingsley: The Alteration, The Green Man
- Amis, Martin: Other People, Einstein's Monsters,
Time's Arrow
- Apple, Max: Zap, The Oranging of America
- Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaids Tale, The Blind Assassin
- Auster, Paul: City of Glass, In the Country of Last Things
- Bail, Murray: Eucalyptus
- Baker, Nicholson: The Fermata
- Bakis, Kristen: Lives of the Monster Dogs
- Ballard, J. G.: Day of Creation, Empire of the Sun
- Banks, Iain: The Wasp Factory, Walking on Glass,
The Bridge, The Business
- Banville, John: Kepler, Dr. Copernicus
- Barnes, Julian: Staring at the Sun
- Barrett, Jr., Neal: The Hereafter Gang, Interstate Dreams
- Barth, John: Giles Goat-Boy, Chimera
- Barthelme, Donald: The Dead Father
- Batcherlor, John Calvin: Birth of the People's Republic of
Antarctica
- Bell, Madison Smartt: Waiting for the End of the World
- Berger, Thomas: Arthur Rex
- Bishop, Michael: Brittle Innings, Count Geiger's Blues
- Bontly, Thomas: Celestial Chess
- Boylan, James Finney: The Planets
- Bradfield, Scott: The Secret Life of Houses (aka The
Dream of the Wolf), The History of Luminous Motion,
What's Wrong With America?, Greetings From Earth,
Animal Planet
- Boyle, T. Corgahessan: Worlds End, Water Music
- Brando, Ignacio: And Still the Earth
- Brown, Peter Currell: Smallcreep's Day
- Burroughs, William S.: Place of Dead Roads, Naked
Lunch, Soft Machine, etc.
- Britton, David: Lord Horror, Motherfuckers
- Cady, Jack: The Off Season
- Carroll, Jonathan: Land of Laughs, Bones of the
Moon, Sleeping in Flame, A Child Across the Sky,
After Silence, From the Teeth of Angels, etc.
- Carter, Angela: Nights at the Circus, Heroes and Villains
- Cary, Peter: Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda
- Chapman, Stepan: The Troika, Dossier
- Chesbro, George M.: An Affair of Sorcerers
- Cisco, Michael: The Divinity Student
- Coetzee, J. M.: Life and Times of Michael K.
- Coover, Robert: The Public Burning, Pricksongs &
Descants, The Universal Baseball Association,
John's Wife
- Crace, Jim: Continent
- Crowley, John: Little Big, Aegypt, Love and
Sleep, Deamonomania,
The Translator
- Davenport, Guy: Da Vincis Bicycle, The Jules Verne
Steam Balloon
- deBerniers, Louis: The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts,
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lords,
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
- DeLillo, Don: Ratner's Star, White Noise
- Denton, Bradley: Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on
Ganymede, Lunatics
- Devereaux, Robert: Santa Steps Out
- di Filippo, Paul: Lost Pages, Ciphers
- Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: The Mistress of Spices
- Disch, Thomas: On Wings of Song, The M.D.
- Dodge, Jim: Not Fade Away
- Dorsey, Candas Jane: Black Wine
- Dunn, Katherine: Geek Love
- Durrell, Lawrence: Tunc, Nunquam
- Eccarius, J. G.: The Last Days of Christ the Vampire
- Eco, Umberto: Foucault's Pendulum
- Ely, David: Seconds
- Emshwiller, Carol: Carmen Dog, The Start of the End of It All
- Erdrich, Louise: The Antelope Wife
- Erickson, Steve: Days Between Stations, Rubicon
Beach, Tours of the Black Clock, Leap Year,
Amnesiascope, Arc d'X, The Sea Came In at Midnight
- Escando'n, Mari'a Amparo: Esperanza's Box of Saints
- Federman, Richard: The Twofold Variations
- Fenkel, Heinz Insu: Memories of My Ghost Brother
- Fowler, Christopher: The Bureau of Lost Souls,
Roofworld, Rune
- Fowler, Karen Joy: Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season
- Fowles, John: A Maggot
- Franzen, Jonathan: The Twenty-Seventh City
- Frisch, Max: Homo Faber, Man in the Holocene
- Fuentes, Carlos: Terra Nostra
- Gaddis, William: JR, Carpenter's Gothic
- Gardner, John: Grendel, Freddy's Book
- Geary, Patricia: Strange Toys, Living in Ether
- Ghosh, Amitav: The Calcutta Chromosome
- Goldman, William: The Princess Bride, The Color of Light
- Goldstein, Lisa: The Dream Years, Tourists
- Grass, Gunter: The Tin Drum
- Gray, Alasdair: Lanark
- Grimwood, Ken: Replay
- Hand, Elizabeth: Waking the Moon
- Hansen, Brooks: The Chess Garden
- Harbison, W. A.: Genesis, Revelation, Otherworld
- Harrison, M. John: Course of the Heart, In Viriconium
- Hill, Carolyn: The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer
- Hjortsberg, William: Gray Matters, Falling Angel,
Nevermore
- Hoban, Russell: Riddley Walker
- Hoffman, Alice: Turtle Moon, Practical Magic, etc.
- Hopkinson, Nalo: Brown Girl in the Ring
- Hoyt, Richard: The Manna Enzyme
- Irwin, Robert: The Arabian Nightmares
- Iskander, Fazil: Sandro of Chegam, The Gospel According
to Sandro
- Johnson, Denis: Fiskadoro, Already Dead
- Jones, Robert F.: Blood Sport, The Diamond Bogo
- Joyce, Graham: House of Lost Dreams, Requium,
The Tooth Fairy
- Kandel, Michael: Captain Jack Zodiac
- Kinsella, W. P.: Shoeless Joe
- Koster, R. M.: The Dissertation, Mandragon
- Kotzwinkle, William: Elephant Bangs Train, Doctor
Rat, Fata Morgana
- Kramer, Kathryn: A Handbook for Visitors From Outer Space
- Kroker, Arthur: Spasm
- Lange, Oliver: Vandenberg
- Lansdale, Joe R.: The Drive-In, The Drive-In 2
- Leonard, Elmore: Touch
- Lessing, Doris: The Four-Gated City, The Fifth Child of Satan
- Lethem, Jonathan: As She Climbed Across the Table
- Leven, Jeremy: Satan, Creator
- Leyner, Mark: My Cousin, My Gastrointerologist, Et Tu, Babe
- Louvish, Simon: The Resurrections
- MaGuire, Gregory: Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
- Mailer, Norman: Ancient Evenings
- Mandava, Bhargavi C.: Where the Oceans Meet
- Marinis, Rick: A Lovely Monster
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Autumn of the Patriarch; One
Hundred Years of Solitude
- Matthews, Greg: Heart of the Country
- Mathews, Harry: The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium
- McEwan, Ian: The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time
- McMahon, Thomas: Loving Little Egypt
- McMurtry, Larry: Dead Man's Walk
- Mieville, China: King Rat
- Millar, Martin: Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation
- Mooney, Ted: Easy Travel to Other Planets
- Moorcock, Michael: Laughter of Carthage, Byzantium
Endures, Mother London
- Moore, Brian: Cold Heaven, The Great Victorian Collection
- Moore, Christopher: Coyote Blue, Island of the Sequined
Love Nun, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
- Morrell, David: The Totem
- Morrison, Toni: Beloved, The Song of Solomon
- Morrow, James: Only Begotten Daughter, Towing
Jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon,
The Eternal Footman
- Needleman, Jacob: Sorcerers
- Noon, Jeff: Vurt, Pollen
- Nunn, Ken: Tapping the Source, Unassigned Territory
- Norfolk, Lawrence: Lempriere's Dictionary
- Olsen, Lance: Tonguing the Zeitgeist, Time Famine
- Partridge, Norman: Saguaro Riptide
- Pearlman, Daniel: The Final Dream & Other Stories
- Pelevin, Victor: The Werewolf Problem in Central Russia
- Percy, Walker: Love in the Ruins, The Thanatos Syndrome
- Perez-Riverte, Arturo: The Dumas Club
- Piercy, Marge: Woman on the Edge of Time
- Portis, Charles: Masters of Atlantis
- Prill, David: The Unnatural
- Priest, Christopher: The Glamour, The Affirmation,
The Prestige
- Prose, Francine: Bigfoot Dreams, Marie Laveau
- Pynhon, Thomas : Gravity's Rainbow, V, The
Crying of Lot 49, Vineland
- Reed, Ishmael: Mumbo Jumbo, The Terrible Twos
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned
- Robbins, Tom: Jitterbug Perfume, Another Roadside Attraction
- Roth, Philip: The Counterlife
- Rushdie, Salmon: Grimus, Midnight's Children,
The Satanic Verses
- Ryman, Geoff: Was, 243
- Saint, H. F.: Memoirs of an Invisible Man
- Scholz, Carter & Harcourt, Glenn: Palimpsests
- Self, Will: Great Apes
- Shepard, Lucius: Life During Wartime
- Shiner, Lewis: Deserted Cities of the Heart, Glimpses
- Siddons, Anne Rivers: The House Next Door
- Sinclair, Iain: White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings,
Downriver, Radon Daughters
- Sosnowski, David: Rapture
- Spark, Muriel: The Hothouse by the East River
- Spencer, Scott: Last Night at the Brain Thieves Ball
- Spencer, William Browning: Resume With Monsters, Zod
Wallop, Irrational Fears
- Stevens, Brooke: The Circus of the Earth & the Air
- Stewart, Sean: Resurrection Man, Mockingbird
- Sukenick, Ronald: Up, Down and In
- Suskind, Patrick: Perfume
- Sulzman, Mark: The Laughing Sutra
- Theroux, Paul: O-Zone
- Thomas, D. M.: The White Hotel
- Thompson, Joyce: The Blue Chair, Conscience Place
- Thomson, Rupert: Dreams of Leaving
- Thornberg, Newton: Valhalla
- Thornton, Lawrence: Imagining Argentina
- Updike, John: The Witches of Eastwick, Rogers Version
- VanderMeer, Jeff: The Book of Lost Places, Dradin In Love
- Vliet, R. G.: Scorpio Rising
- Vollman, William T.: You Bright and Risen Angels,
Rainbow Stories
- Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle,
Galapagos, Timequake
- Waldrop, Howard: Going Home Again
- Walker, Alice : The Temple of My Familiar
- Wallace, David Foster: The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest
- Webb, Don: Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book, The Bestseller
and Other Tales,
The Explanation and Other Good Advice, The Seventh Day and
After, A Spell for the Fulfillment of Desire,
Stealing My Rules, Essential Saltes
- Whittemore, Edward: Nile Shadows, Jerusalem Poker,
Sinai Tapestry
- Welsh, Irvine: The Acid House
- Werber, Bernard: Empire of the Ants
- Willard, Nancy: Things Invisible to See
- Wolf, Gary: Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
- Wolfe, Gene: Peace, Castleview, Pandora by Holly
Hollander
- Womack, Jack: Ambient, Terraplane
- Wood, Bari: The Killing Gift
- Wright, Stephen: M31: A Family Romance
At some point I'll have some more links and material talking about
and defining slipstream.
If you're confused, try reading
Bruce Sterling's original slipstream article.
Send mail to Lawrence Person (lperson1@austin.rr.com).
Go to Lawrence Person's main page
Go to the Nova Express main page
Go to the Lame Excuse Books web page,
where many slipstream book are for sale.
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