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Lush Seperation

Graham alerts me to the fact there is another, better report of that panel. I need to read through it to make sure he is still wrong but two things first:

1) Each panelist has submitted a list of the best 50 or 100 works of fiction of all-time that are in some important way non-mimetic or fantastic, but would not ordinarily be regarded as sf, fantasy, or horror. We've compiled the lists and provided you all with a handout

Well, we've seen Graham's list but where is my handout?

2) Drummond says he’s going to play a Jethro Tull song during the panel! He says he doesn’t like the implication that slipstream has to be a downer.

Christ.

Comments

Both Priest and Harrison appear on the list

No they don't. They're in the complete list of nominations, but not in the canon.

Huh. Memory was tricking me, then. (I certainly wound up talking more about Harrison with my co-panel-ees beforehand.) I should say, though, that I regarded all three lists as being part of the overall canon-y list-y thing. There were, so to speak, three concentric circles of canon-ness. Or something.

Looking at the choices it would appear that, amazingly, yours were some of the least insane.

(For example, I personally feel that Steve Erickson's work is quintessentially Slipstream, that he is the most characteristically Slipstream author—yet only one of his books made it onto the top-115, and that near the bottom.)

I am Ron Drummond.

On many levels, you're not.

As I said elsewhere, the problem with Erickson is that he has a bunch of more or less equally characteristic slipstream-y novels, rather than one career-defining work. I think they're all awesome, but maybe others had only read bits and pieces of his work.