Slipstream
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A term coined by Bruce Sterling in a 1989 essay in SF Eye 5 describing otherwise mainstream fiction that uses stfnal devices without being what we point to when we say “science fiction”. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls it fabulation.
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
- “Slipstream” by Bruce Sterling, SF Eye 5, July 1989.
See also: Science Fiction, Classification of Fantasy.
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