![]() “I don’t know if I ever thought of the kind of writing I was doing using the term, but wherever it still appears I expect to find kindred spirits - the writers collected under slipstream fifteen years ago (or under speculative or fabulist or nonrealist or genre-bending today) are and always will be my people.” ![]() “For me, the term slipstream (which I never encountered all that much, as evocative as I found it) was for a time a portal to the worlds I wanted to visit: so many of my favorite writers could be collected under such a term, people like Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Ted Chiang, Jeff VanderMeer, Jonathan Lethem, Jeffrey Ford, and the others who appeared in Feeling Very Strange,” Bell wrote in an email to me. But Sterling wrote that’s the trouble as well:Īuthor Matt Bell, of the upcoming novel Appleseed and well-known for his speculative fiction, counts Feeling Very Strange as his first encounter with slipstream: When successful, slipstream authors can jump into genre or literary/mainstream circles. Although they may add it might be a bit on the weirder side. On the other hand, a mainstream reader may also recommend a slipstream novel. Slipstream novels are categorized as not strictly under science fiction, fantasy, or horror, but may be recommended by their ardent readers. In a nutshell he wrote, “this is a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange.” Most of the essay brainstorms and then acknowledges arguments against the term. Sterling admitted it’s not clearcut what slipstream is. Sterling then goes on to name “slipstream” for a group of books that straddle the fence of mainstream and genre, even acknowledging the term as a parody of the word “mainstream.” He referred to an interview with Carter Scholz, who hailed mainstream/literary authors as shouldering the weight of successful, meaningful speculative fiction of the times: Margaret Atwood, Don Dellilo, etc. In the end, you the reader will ultimately be the judge for where on the spectrum of weird or speculative fiction slipstream resides. Is it a sub-genre? Is it its own animal? And how do contemporary authors feel about the term?įor this overview, we’ll tackle slipstream’s origins, its modern uses, a couple author interpretations, and give some examples on what may currently be considered slipstream (though some of you may disagree, and that’s okay!). Like speculative fiction, slipstream’s definition varies depending on who you ask and with what context. That is where slipstream comes into play. Like speculative fiction, there is another term that lingers somewhere between literary fiction, mainstream, and genre. ![]() In early 2020, I tackled the definitions and interpretations of speculative fiction. She lives with her family in a suburb of Indianapolis. When she’s not nesting among her books and rough drafts, she’s chasing the baby while the dog watches in confused amusement. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked in web production and content management. Lyndsie Manusos’s fiction has appeared in PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other publications. ![]()
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In the early 20th century new technologies made the physical disembodiment of breast milk possible, while mothering practices and medical authorities' preferences promoted breast milk's symbolic disembodiment, promoting the milk's commodification, while limited employment opportunities created a pool of willing sellers. My analysis indicates that in each era a confluence of factors, in particular women's employment, conceptions of motherhood, medical practices and beliefs, and technologies shapes the exchange of banked breast milk. I use content analysis of institutional records from three banks operating in three different eras, and interviews with current milk bank managers, donors, and parents of recipients to address these questions. This dissertation explores why the commodified model of breast milk banking first arose, and why banked breast milk was giftified (but still commodified) by the end of the century. 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Soft X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy (undulator)-U03.Protein crystallography (bending magnet)- BM02A.White beam diffraction (bending magnet)-BM01B.General diffraction & scattering (bending magnet)-BM01A.The list of the first stage beamlines includes: 1 Dipole (solid) and ID (dash line) photon beams delivery system.Īt the initial stage of machine operation, six beamlines are planed to be functional. A scheme of the potential photon beam delivery system from the dipole and ID sources is shown in Fig. From each dipole of the storage ring two beamlines with source located at 1/3 or 2/3 of the magnet length can be extracted. CANDLE can provide more than 50 beamlines that cover the wide spectrum range of emitted photons from VUV to the hard X-ray region. The beamlines and corresponding instrumentation are an integrated part of the facility design that defines the quality of the machine, the efficiency of the usage of photon sources as well as the requirements for civil engineering in addition to accelerator complex. Front End and Standard Beamline Components Medical Beamline X-Ray Lithography and Micro-machining White Beam Diffraction ![]() ![]() ![]() The German force in CoH2 is a tweaked version of what we saw in CoH and works in mostly the same way, but the new Soviet Red Army has a fresh, unique style that reflects the manpower advantage they had in the war. ![]() Watching your soldiers set up and fire a heavy machine gun or mortar is a treat, and hearing their heavily accented chatter and convincing screams of pain in combat makes it easy to get attached to veteran squads, even though they’re nameless fodder. 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