Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781892391353)

Vendor: James Patrick Kelly
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology

$14.95

Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

These ambitious stories of visionary strangeness defy the conventions of science fiction. Tales by Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Carol Emshwiller, George Saunders, and others pull the reader into a vivid dreamspace and embrace the knowledge that life today is increasingly surreal.

Author: James Patrick Kelly
ISBN-10: 189239135X
ISBN-13: 9781892391353
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2006
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/05/2006 pg. 42
Booklist 05/15/2006 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 08/04/2006 pg. 71
Booklist 05/15/2007 pg. 32
By James Patrick Kelly
By James Patrick Kelly
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James Patrick Kelly is the Hugo, Nebula, and Italia award-winning author of Burn, Think Like a Dinosaur, and Wildlife. He is a member of the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He has co-edited a series of anthologies with John Kessel, described by the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as "each surveying with balance and care a potentially disputed territory within the field." Kelly is the technology columnist for Asimov's Science Fiction magazine and the publisher of the e-book 'zine Strangeways.

John Kessel is a Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus award winner and the author of Corrupting Dr. Nice, Good News From Outer Space, and The Pure Product. He teaches courses in science-fiction, fantasy, and fiction writing at North Carolina State University. His criticism has appeared in Foundation, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Age.

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