Slipstream or Interstitial Fiction

1
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
9,428 members
315 reviews
4
7 Members
macha, Milesc, ssanders_81, iggyjreilly, Dilara86, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda,
2
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
27,087 members
779 reviews
3.9
8 Members
macha, LittleTaiko, acenturyofsleep, aulsmith, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda,
Explanations
aulsmith: historical speculative fiction
3
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
10,430 members
423 reviews
3.8
5 Members
Milesc, aulsmith, krazy4katz, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
4
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
16,532 members
384 reviews
3.9
5 Members
LittleTaiko, mmignano11, krazy4katz, ahef1963, kara.shamy
5
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
42,678 members
1,149 reviews
4.1
5 Members
acenturyofsleep, krazy4katz, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
6
Grendel
by John Gardner
6,069 members
108 reviews
3.8
5 Members
macha, acenturyofsleep, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda
7
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
12,607 members
260 reviews
4.1
5 Members
acenturyofsleep, thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
8
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
20,001 members
238 reviews
4
5 Members
thecoroner, Dilara86, kara.shamy, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda
9
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
43,792 members
1,013 reviews
3.9
4 Members
mmignano11, krazy4katz, ahef1963, kara.shamy
10
Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
10,706 members
174 reviews
3.9
4 Members
macha, krazy4katz, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda
11
Was
by Geoff Ryman
905 members
15 reviews
4
4 Members
Milesc, acenturyofsleep, aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
12
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
25,719 members
294 reviews
4.1
5 Members
macha, mmignano11, Dilara86, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ,aulsmith
13
Freedom and Necessity
by Steven Brust
1,081 members
19 reviews
3.9
4 Members
macha, aulsmith, merrystar, Lou.Clifton
14
Tigana
by Guy Gavriel Kay
5,052 members
145 reviews
4.1
6 Members
macha, aulsmith, merrystar, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda,
15
Blindness
by José Saramago
13,107 members
391 reviews
4.1
4 Members
iggyjreilly, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
16
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
23,045 members
941 reviews
3.8
4 Members
ssanders_81, iggyjreilly, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
17
Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
8,483 members
355 reviews
4.2
4 Members
krazy4katz, sallypursell, Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda
18
The City & The City
by China Miéville
6,288 members
358 reviews
4
4 Members
macha, iggyjreilly, Dilara86, Lou.Clifton
19
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
39,641 members
1,273 reviews
4.1
3 Members
acenturyofsleep, mmignano11, ahef1963
20
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
22,418 members
301 reviews
4.1
4 Members
aulsmith, krazy4katz, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
21
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
20,540 members
469 reviews
4.2
4 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda
22
The Last Light of the Sun
by Guy Gavriel Kay
1,985 members
52 reviews
3.8
4 Members
macha, aulsmith, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
23
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,961 members
370 reviews
4.2
3 Members
iggyjreilly, sallypursell, thecoroner
24
The Sandman: A Game of You
by Neil Gaiman
6,047 members
81 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
macha, acenturyofsleep, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
25
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
9,436 members
205 reviews
4.1
4 Members
macha, thecoroner, Dilara86, Lou.Clifton
26
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
9,863 members
433 reviews
3.9
4 Members
mmignano11, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda
27
Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
17,787 members
684 reviews
4.1
3 Members
macha, Milesc, iggyjreilly
28
The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
10,453 members
127 reviews
4
3 Members
Milesc, aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
29
The Sandman: Season of Mists
by Neil Gaiman
6,799 members
97 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
macha, acenturyofsleep, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
30
The Sandman: Dream Country
by Neil Gaiman
7,204 members
116 reviews
4.2
5 Members
macha, acenturyofsleep, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
31
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
12,611 members
222 reviews
3.9
3 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy
32
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27,934 members
413 reviews
4
3 Members
iggyjreilly, thecoroner, ahef1963
33
11/22/63
by Stephen King
13,739 members
769 reviews
4.2
3 Members
mmignano11, krazy4katz, ahef1963
34
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
12,113 members
140 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
acenturyofsleep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
35
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
13,014 members
161 reviews
3.9
3 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
36
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
44,232 members
709 reviews
4.1
3 Members
krazy4katz, Dilara86, ahef1963
37
Dangerous Angels
by Francesca Lia Block
1,844 members
39 reviews
4.2
3 Members
acenturyofsleep, aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
38
The Sandman: Brief Lives
by Neil Gaiman
5,496 members
67 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
macha, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
39
Lust
by Geoff Ryman
227 members
8 reviews
3.8
2 Members
aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
40
Girlfriend in a Coma
by Douglas Coupland
3,238 members
44 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
41
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
by Neil Gaiman
10,309 members
126 reviews
4
3 Members
acenturyofsleep, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
42
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
6,576 members
197 reviews
4
3 Members
macha, Lou.Clifton, ManWithAnAgenda,
43
A Song for Arbonne
by Guy Gavriel Kay
2,730 members
54 reviews
4.1
4 Members
macha, aulsmith, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
44
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
34,611 members
1,407 reviews
4.1
2 Members
iggyjreilly, mmignano11
45
The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
2,382 members
38 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
Dilara86, Lou.Clifton
46
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
17,032 members
538 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Dilara86, ahef1963
47
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,563 members
108 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963
48
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
36,061 members
942 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
mmignano11, ahef1963
49
The Book of Lies
by Felice Picano
166 members
4 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
50
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
3,761 members
74 reviews
3.8
3 Members
macha, aulsmith, Lou.Clifton,
Explanations
aulsmith: I think this reads better as a mainstream exploration of sexuality set in an sfnal place, rather than sf.
51
Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
3,842 members
185 reviews
4
2 Members
kara.shamy, Lou.Clifton
52
Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
1,347 members
25 reviews
4.2
2 Members
Milesc, Lou.Clifton
53
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
8,318 members
593 reviews
4
2 Members
kara.shamy, Lou.Clifton
54
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
18,228 members
453 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Dilara86, ahef1963
55
The Magician of Lhasa
by David Michie
44 members
1 review
½ 4.4
Member
krazy4katz
56
The Circle
by Dave Eggers
5,941 members
422 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
krazy4katz, Lou.Clifton
57
Watchmen
by Alan Moore
19,247 members
494 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
macha, Lou.Clifton
58
The Children of Men
by P. D. James
5,821 members
201 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
macha, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton,
59
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,979 members
245 reviews
4
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963
60
253
by Geoff Ryman
560 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
aulsmith, Lou.Clifton
61
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
28,997 members
651 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
acenturyofsleep, mmignano11, Lou.Clifton,aulsmith ,
62
The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
903 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
mmignano11, Lou.Clifton
63
The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster
9,881 members
155 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963
64
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
by Philip K. Dick
1,698 members
14 reviews
3.8
2 Members
macha, aulsmith
65
Stardust
by Neil Gaiman
22,044 members
564 reviews
4
4 Members
krazy4katz, Dilara86, ahef1963, Lou.Clifton, ,aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith : Fantasy
66
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
54,201 members
774 reviews
3.9
3 Members
mmignano11, krazy4katz, ahef1963,aulsmith ,
67
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G.K. Chesterton
7,082 members
170 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
68
Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
7,275 members
207 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
69
A Maggot
by John Fowles
1,401 members
18 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
70
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
15,856 members
378 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
71
Death: The Time of Your Life
by Neil Gaiman
2,229 members
13 reviews
4
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
72
The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro
3,580 members
82 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, Lou.Clifton
73
The Sandman: The Kindly Ones
by Neil Gaiman
5,240 members
74 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
74
The Sandman: Worlds' End
by Neil Gaiman
5,161 members
62 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
75
The Lions of al-Rassan
by Guy Gavriel Kay
3,197 members
103 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
aulsmith, merrystar,
76
The Sandman: The Wake
by Neil Gaiman
4,851 members
62 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
77
Death: The High Cost of Living
by Neil Gaiman
3,482 members
43 reviews
4.1
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
78
The Sandman: Endless Nights
by Neil Gaiman
4,422 members
61 reviews
4.2
2 Members
macha, ahef1963
79
Bones of the Moon
by Jonathan Carroll
845 members
18 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
80
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
54,275 members
1,006 reviews
4
2 Members
acenturyofsleep, ahef1963,
81
The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
2,217 members
134 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
kara.shamy
82
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
by J. G. Ballard
589 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
macha
83
Cotton
by Christopher Wilson
212 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
iggyjreilly
84
Mischief
by Chris Wilson
24 members
1 review
3.8
Member
iggyjreilly
85
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection
by Ellen Datlow
168 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
acenturyofsleep
86
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
8,001 members
376 reviews
4.1
3 Members
macha, acenturyofsleep, Lou.Clifton, ,aulsmith
87
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
by Ellen Datlow
285 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
acenturyofsleep
88
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
by Susanna Clarke
4,203 members
130 reviews
3.9
Member
acenturyofsleep
89
Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
3,651 members
115 reviews
3.9
Member
Lou.Clifton
90
Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
3,605 members
96 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Dilara86, Lou.Clifton,
91
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: Stories
by Harlan Ellison
1,779 members
51 reviews
3.8
Member
macha
92
The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
3,498 members
106 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
macha, aulsmith,
Explanations
aulsmith: It's alternate history but the Bardo sequences add a note of fantasy.
93
Momo
by Michael Ende
4,005 members
87 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Dilara86
94
Replay
by Ken Grimwood
3,340 members
139 reviews
4.1
Member
Lou.Clifton
95
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
8,204 members
239 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Dilara86, Lou.Clifton,
96
The Dream of Perpetual Motion
by Dexter Palmer
606 members
42 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Lou.Clifton
97
Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland
1,540 members
49 reviews
3.9
Member
Lou.Clifton
98
When She Woke
by Hillary Jordan
1,659 members
172 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Lou.Clifton
99
The Last Policeman
by Ben H. Winters
2,126 members
185 reviews
3.8
Member
Lou.Clifton
100
Winter Well: Speculative Novellas About Older Women
by Kay T. Holt
27 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Lou.Clifton