A father and son enter a magic shop that may contain real magic. To include him in the anthology at all and for this story specifically is baffling. With Karl Johnson, Ron Cook, Paul Erangey, William Rushton. It certainly isn’t representative of his career, it isn’t even really representative of the Leggy Starlitz stories. The irony is that Sterling did write one great work of slipstream: Zeitgeist. It is a fairy tale told in the modern style in which a young man buys a immortality potion and then everything proceeds unexcitingly from there. In my opinion, this work is definitely not SF, and is essentially alien to what I consider SF’s intrinsic virtues.Īs it turns out ‘The Little Magic Shop’ is not slipstream in any shape or form. This doesn’t mean that it is “bad,” merely that it is different. I enjoy some slipstream, but much of it is simply not to my taste. I offer this list as a public service to slipstream’s authors and readers. The inclusion of a story by Sterling himself is interesting because in his orginal article he says:
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