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Ajax Plunkett
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| Posted 5/9/2007 4:18 PM (GMT -4) |   | | Under the guidelines section for work we are NOT looking for is something called slipstream/ literary fantasy. What is an indepth definition of this and some examples of this type of work?? | | Back to Top | | |
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Bill Ward
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| Posted 5/9/2007 5:21 PM (GMT -4) | | Essentially contemporary, 'literary' stories with a bit of speculation/absurdism/fantasy thrown in for seasoning, though often also experimental in style or structure. There are probably some fine points of distinction between slipstream and magical realism and absurdism, etc., however I'm guessing if this market doesn't want one they don't want anything of the kind.
What is the market? If you mention what they are looking for its usually easier to gage what they don't want. | | Back to Top | | |
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Nik
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| Posted 5/14/2007 2:23 PM (GMT -4) | | I classify this as "stuff I really don't choose to read but often pleasantly surprises me." In my opinoin, it's usually short on action, adventure, and character development and long on description, symbolism, experimentation, etc.
I prefer more of a balance of these elements. One story that treads perfectly the line between sword and sorcery/adventure fantasy and slipstream/literary fantasy is "Schwarze Madonna and the Sandalwood Knight," by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, in Realms of Fantasy. Simply superb.
Nicholas Ian Hawkins
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"Knowledge and Dust," in Magic & Mechanica (Ricasso Press)
"Relativity," in FLASHSHOT, September 28, 2007 | | Back to Top | | |
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Bill Ward
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| Posted 5/16/2007 2:30 PM (GMT -4) | | You should tell us the market, and that will put things in perspective. When a market lists what they want they aren't looking to provoke a nuanced discussion of genre classification, so if you tell us what they do want we can make an educated guess about what's appropriate.
I wouldn't worry too much about being too high brow, if you were to submit a well written piece of s&s that leaned more toward the literary to a market that accepts s&s in the first place (few and far between) they'd probably be happy to see it. When they say they don't want slipstream thay aren't talking about no literary elements at all, they specifically mean the kind of stories you get with slipstream (again, we need more to go on here, tell us the market and we can more easily gage what they are asking for). | | Back to Top | | |
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Bill Ward
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| Posted 5/16/2007 3:22 PM (GMT -4) | | | No but I have a stack of unread Realms, what issue was it in? I may have it (somewhere). | | Back to Top | | |
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Bill Ward
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| Posted 5/16/2007 11:43 PM (GMT -4) | | | Glad to hear your cat is ok -- he looks a bit like one I used to have. I don't have that Realms issue, I checked. | | Back to Top | | |
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Bill Ward
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| Posted 5/18/2007 2:31 AM (GMT -4) | | | I've never really seen the term slipstream used like that -- it is an awfully amorphous concept obviously, I wonder if anyone really knows what they mean when they use it ;) | | Back to Top | | |
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kaolin fire
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| Posted 5/20/2007 4:11 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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