Speculative Fiction: Slipstream Literature

1

Slaughterhouse-Five

por Kurt Vonnegut

43,968 membros

704 críticas

4.1

8 Members: krisa, krazy4katz, amanda4242, merrystar, sturlington, andomck, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Metamorphosis

por Franz Kafka

12,441 membros

219 críticas

3.9

8 Members: krisa, aulsmith, amanda4242, sturlington, thecoroner, andomck, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Handmaid's Tale

por Margaret Atwood

42,212 membros

1,137 críticas

4.1

7 Members: krisa, krazy4katz, amanda4242, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

por Michael Chabon

18,770 membros

412 críticas

4.2

5 Members: krisa, aulsmith, krazy4katz, sturlington, ahef1963

5

The Blind Assassin

por Margaret Atwood

16,471 membros

384 críticas

3.9

6 Members: krisa, krazy4katz, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy

6

The Haunting of Hill House

por Shirley Jackson

9,704 membros

431 críticas

3.9

6 Members: aulsmith, amanda4242, sturlington, andomck, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações: aulsmith: This is a good book, but I think it's fairly straight-forward horror, rather than slipstream
sturlington: This one was on the original canon list. But thinking about it, there is that sense when reading it that you're not sure what's real.

7

Neverwhere

por Neil Gaiman

24,906 membros

576 críticas

4.1

6 Members: krisa, amanda4242, merrystar, sturlington, andomck, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

por Michael Chabon

10,380 membros

421 críticas

3.8

5 Members: krisa, aulsmith, krazy4katz, sturlington, ahef1963

9

The Lottery and Other Stories

por Shirley Jackson

3,628 membros

93 críticas

4

6 Members: krisa, aulsmith, sturlington, andomck, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

por Samuel Beckett

12,918 membros

161 críticas

3.9

6 Members: aulsmith, amanda4242, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,krisa

11

Ensaio sobre a cegueira

por José Saramago

13,029 membros

389 críticas

4.1

6 Members: krisa, sturlington, thecoroner, andomck, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Ulysses

por James Joyce

24,080 membros

377 críticas

4

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy
Explicações: aulsmith: If you don't take it too seriously or worry too much about what it all means, this is a pretty good book. I'm not sure what's slipstream about it.

13

The Man in the High Castle

por Philip K. Dick

13,811 membros

357 críticas

½ 3.7

5 Members: krisa, aulsmith, sturlington, andomck, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Cat's Cradle

por Kurt Vonnegut

22,296 membros

300 críticas

4.1

5 Members: krazy4katz, amanda4242, sturlington, andomck, ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963

15

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

por Italo Calvino

12,505 membros

257 críticas

4.1

4 Members: krisa, merrystar, thecoroner, andomck

16

Cem anos de solidão

por Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,376 membros

688 críticas

4.2

5 Members: krisa, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, andomck,kara.shamy
Explicações: sturlington: Magical realism as a forerunner to slipstream.

17

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

por Shirley Jackson

8,116 membros

423 críticas

4.1

5 Members: amanda4242, sturlington, andomck, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,merrystar

18

The Lathe of Heaven

por Ursula K. Le Guin

6,501 membros

195 críticas

4

4 Members: krisa, sturlington, andomck, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Something Wicked This Way Comes

por Ray Bradbury

11,359 membros

296 críticas

4

4 Members: krisa, sturlington, andomck, ManWithAnAgenda

20

House of Leaves

por Mark Z. Danielewski

15,631 membros

374 críticas

4.1

3 Members: amanda4242, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Pattern Recognition

por William Gibson

8,869 membros

173 críticas

3.8

4 Members: krisa, sturlington, andomck, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Time Traveler's Wife

por Audrey Niffenegger

39,447 membros

1,271 críticas

4.1

3 Members: krisa, sturlington, ahef1963

23

Air: Or, Have Not Have

por Geoff Ryman

864 membros

31 críticas

½ 3.7

3 Members: krisa, aulsmith, sturlington

24

The House on the Borderland

por William Hope Hodgson

1,479 membros

47 críticas

½ 3.4

3 Members: mkbird, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

por Haruki Murakami

17,873 membros

369 críticas

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, andomck, ahef1963

26

Never Let Me Go

por Kazuo Ishiguro

22,792 membros

938 críticas

3.8

4 Members: krisa, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,amanda4242

27

Life of Pi

por Yann Martel

43,551 membros

1,013 críticas

3.9

4 Members: krazy4katz, sturlington, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963

28

The Diamond Age

por Neal Stephenson

11,214 membros

206 críticas

4.1

3 Members: krisa, aulsmith, sturlington

29

The New York Trilogy

por Paul Auster

9,806 membros

155 críticas

3.9

4 Members: krisa, Tomleesteenboek, amanda4242, thecoroner,aulsmith ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações: aulsmith : I couldn't get past page 10

30

The Third Policeman

por Flann O'Brien

4,232 membros

123 críticas

4

3 Members: sturlington, andomck, ahef1963

31

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

por Neil Gaiman

14,827 membros

961 críticas

4.1

3 Members: amanda4242, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Ella Minnow Pea

por Mark Dunn

3,936 membros

259 críticas

3.9

3 Members: amanda4242, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Dhalgren

por Samuel R. Delany

3,726 membros

74 críticas

3.8

3 Members: krisa, aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações: aulsmith: This isn't as profound as Delany wants it to be, but it does offer an entree into the hidden world of sexual minorities.

34

The Years of Rice and Salt

por Kim Stanley Robinson

3,485 membros

106 críticas

½ 3.6

3 Members: krisa, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Oryx and Crake

por Margaret Atwood

16,996 membros

536 críticas

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, andomck, ahef1963

36

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

por A.S. Byatt

1,426 membros

18 críticas

3.9

2 Members: krisa, mkbird

37

Beloved

por Toni Morrison

22,800 membros

405 críticas

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, andomck, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,krisa

38

Perdido Street Station

por China Miéville

9,380 membros

314 críticas

4

3 Members: krisa, andomck, ManWithAnAgenda

39

The City & The City

por China Miéville

6,233 membros

356 críticas

4

3 Members: krisa, andomck, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Female Man

por Joanna Russ

2,182 membros

57 críticas

½ 3.5

3 Members: krisa, sturlington, andomck

41

Sleeping in Flame

por Jonathan Carroll

733 membros

20 críticas

4

3 Members: krisa, andomck, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Sarah Canary

por Karen Joy Fowler

755 membros

24 críticas

½ 3.6

2 Members: krisa, mkbird

43

Invisible Cities

por Italo Calvino

9,362 membros

205 críticas

4.1

2 Members: krisa, merrystar

44

Independent People

por Halldór Laxness

2,907 membros

102 críticas

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy

45

The Wood Wife

por Terri Windling

1,023 membros

42 críticas

4.2

2 Members: mkbird, merrystar

46

Tenth of December: Stories

por George Saunders

3,809 membros

184 críticas

4

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

47

The Child Garden

por Geoff Ryman

730 membros

17 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, mkbird

48

The House on the Strand

por Daphne Du Maurier

2,349 membros

59 críticas

3.8

2 Members: mkbird, sturlington

49

The Robber Bridegroom

por Eudora Welty

496 membros

15 críticas

½ 3.6

2 Members: mkbird, amanda4242

50

The Crying of Lot 49

por Thomas Pynchon

10,980 membros

194 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: krazy4katz, andomck

51

Finnegans Wake

por James Joyce

5,328 membros

58 críticas

3.9

3 Members: krisa, thecoroner, kara.shamy,aulsmith
Explicações: aulsmith : There's a movie of this, believe it or not, and I did enjoy watching the Liffey flow and hearing parts of this read, but I'd never bother to try and read it through as a novel.

52

Was

por Geoff Ryman

900 membros

15 críticas

4

2 Members: krisa, aulsmith

53

The French Lieutenant's Woman

por John Fowles

6,531 membros

108 críticas

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963,krisa

54

The Satanic Verses

por Salman Rushdie

12,035 membros

138 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

Gravity's Rainbow

por Thomas Pynchon

10,737 membros

142 críticas

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Road

por Cormac McCarthy

34,363 membros

1,404 críticas

4.1

2 Members: krisa, sturlington

57

Brown Girl in the Ring

por Nalo Hopkinson

1,180 membros

53 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

58

As She Climbed Across the Table

por Jonathan Lethem

1,259 membros

29 críticas

½ 3.6

Member: craso

59

The Child in Time

por Ian McEwan

2,565 membros

44 críticas

½ 3.6

2 Members: krisa, thecoroner

60

Orlando: A Biography

por Virginia Woolf

10,590 membros

174 críticas

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith
Explicações: aulsmith : The atmosphere-to-plot ratio was too high for me.

61

Life After Life

por Kate Atkinson

8,241 membros

589 críticas

4

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

62

Bones of the Moon

por Jonathan Carroll

842 membros

18 críticas

3.9

2 Members: krisa, ManWithAnAgenda

63

The Book of Strange New Things

por Michel Faber

2,200 membros

134 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

64

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

por Salman Rushdie

1,337 membros

68 críticas

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

65

The Year of the Flood

por Margaret Atwood

7,274 membros

362 críticas

3.9

2 Members: krisa, sturlington

66

After Alice

por Gregory Maguire

1,389 membros

69 críticas

2.9

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

67

MaddAddam

por Margaret Atwood

3,527 membros

153 críticas

3.9

2 Members: krisa, sturlington

68

The Accidental

por Ali Smith

2,759 membros

113 críticas

3.2

2 Members: krisa, ahef1963

69

The Double

por José Saramago

2,450 membros

59 críticas

3.8

2 Members: krisa, ahef1963

70

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

por J. G. Ballard

713 membros

11 críticas

4.2

2 Members: krisa, thecoroner

71

O Circo dos Sonhos

por Erin Morgenstern

18,391 membros

1,262 críticas

4.1

2 Members: krisa, sturlington

72

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

por Susanna Clarke

26,959 membros

772 críticas

3.9

3 Members: krisa, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith
Explicações: aulsmith : Some good stuff here and there, but long and short on plot.
sturlington: Couldn't finish this one.