Tag Archives: Reality

Kathryn Kramer, A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space

By Steen | June 21, 2006

A piece from my dissertation, I’m briefly discussing representational issues in Kathryn Kramer’s A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space. I’m trying to establish its connection the the slipstream “movement” as Bruce Sterling began defining.

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J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

By Steen | July 17, 2005

One of the most experimental sf books published, in many ways it can hardly be called sf and most have only referred to it as sf due to Ballard’s earlier involvement with sf. It is a collection of semi-connected short stories with recurring characters. It also contains the beginning seeds of Ballard’s later novel Crash. [...]

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Shane Carruth, Primer

By Steen | May 28, 2005

A strange and haunting film about friends, trust and time travel, the film revolves around two scientists who are in a group of like-minded people trying to invent the next big thing. They cooperate toward this common goal, but one of them suddenly stumbles on something unusual and with just one of the other scientists, [...]

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Richard Linklater, Waking Life

By Steen | May 6, 2005

Richard Linklater’s Waking Life cannot be called a typical film by any standards. It shares very little with his latest blockbusters such as School of Rock or Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Instead, it can be considered a vignette movie or just an anecdotal one.
The story, such as there is one, is about a guy [...]

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John Crowley, Little, Big

By Steen | March 18, 2005

A fantasy and a family history, this wonderful book defies easy classification, although it certainly is a fantasy work. However, it is quite different from most genre fantasy in its focus on a family living in a strange house and the life that passes through the house. Crowley’s prose is rich in metaphors and we [...]

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