How To Use Slipstream In A Sentence
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We talk about why the new generation slipstream is not the fusion of literary fiction and SF/F. Fri 1200 Remembering Robert Anton WILSON
Archive 2007-08-01
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Riding in the slipstream of another competitor is not allowed.
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The end of the road had come for the SAP, which rumbled and shook violently, punctured wing panels beginning to peel away in the slipstream.
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Thinly disguised supercars clothed in bodies which have a passing resemblance to cars on sale in America race round, trading paint and slipstreaming for 500 miles.
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In the slipstream of the United States, Germany grew to become the second biggest export nation in the world.
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Approaching the end of the channel, we found that the German couple who had pushed on ahead had encountered a more vigorous current and were clinging to the reef, their bodies extended like banners in the slipstream.
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His lace-necked trainbearer tripped behind in his slipstream.
Times, Sunday Times
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What I think we have here, at the heart of slipstream, is a folding through of the strange and the mundane, a radical interpenetration (far more radical than that of intrusion fantasy), one that leads to the deep instability and uncertainty of an infused realm, offered as an estranged postmodern view of the world -- infusion as confusion.
Archive 2008-08-01
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We inched out the door, the wind clawing at my legs as they emerged into the slipstream - and then it happened.
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If you are riding down a straightaway at speed with somebody closing in on you, you can literally feel a rearward tug as they move into your slipstream.
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I tried to pull over to the side a few times to get out of his slipstream but it still wasn't enough.
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You swing out of a slipstream, overtaking a cyclist, and your helmet starts vibrating with the G-force - one false move and you will be picking gravel out of your teeth for weeks.
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I sat there in the slipstream grinning the grin of a man who's spent 20 years motoring and was now doing something so much more exciting.
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An e-zine I coedit, Farrago’s Wainscot premiered earlier this year, featuring experimental, slipstream, and other forms of “weird.”
Heart-Shaped Box is Out, Plus a Pimping Thread « Whatever
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Labor announces another policy that again gets caught in the slipstream of international turmoil.
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The liquid blowdown stream from the main wet scrubbing system is mixed with a hot flue gas slipstream.
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Each rider takes a brief turn at the front, then falls back into the slipstream, where he will expend 30 percent less energy.
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Clad in blue, Armstrong and his teammates relayed each other along the 64.5km course from Cambrai to Arras, taking turns at the front of their line while the others slipstreamed behind.
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Since cooling was no problem in the slipstream of an airplane or airship, the gun could be stripped of its distinctive barrel jacket and fins.
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We had to re-trim the ship and increase our throttle setting a little because of the increased drag caused by the bomb bay door hanging out in the slipstream.
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There are no coddling slipstreams, no coasting strategies, no tactical slowdowns.
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There are some slipstream and new weird and magic realist stories I like, but what really floats my boat is aliens, robots and spaceships.
Visual Journeys!
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The team designed a shield to deflect the plane 's slipstream and spin their bomb.
Times, Sunday Times
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Riding in each others’ slipstreams is crucial to race tactics: a lone rider has little chance of outracing a small group of riders who can take turns in the strenuous position at the front of the group.
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By the offered definition, I think "slipstream" is — and has been, for over a quarter of a century — my favorite.
What's Your Favorite Slipstream Story?
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There are others however who may well have "commited" Mundane SF but who have also produced great works far from its shores: Michael Swanwick's industrial fantasy masterpiece The Iron Dragon's Daughter; Bruce Sterling's postmodern slipstream novel Zeitgeist; Philip Dick's gnostic novels such as VALIS that certainly don't engage with the world through science; Aldiss and Ballard's many stories from the New Wave period that explicitly reject the precursor to Mundane SF; Ryman's own work of magical realism, Was.
Rules And Mundanity
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It looked as if the cowling had simply popped open in flight and crumpled in the slipstream.
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McEwen, whose only other stage victory came on the Champs Elysees in 1999, pulled out of the slipstream of his leading contenders in the final metres in Reims.
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And he did that quite neatly in the seventh lap slipstreaming past the leader in the first corner.
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To navigate slipstream, a consensus needs only organic intuition, nothing more.
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Except having a long straight and having a car right behind and slipstreaming like I was able to do with Rubens allowed me to pass.
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He turned and was gone, cloak swirling briefly in his slipstream.
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His logic was sound: with foam regularly falling off of the tank for reasons no one definitively understood, all thicker foam covering structures that protrude into the slipstream should be re-engineered.
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Henry, the world championships silver medallist last year, has been happy to slipstream almost unnoticed in her wake.
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A slight contraction of the slipstream could also be detected by the pilot.
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After a turbulent start in which we lost several places, and got trapped behind some slower cars, Giancarlo moved up smoothly in his usual manner to leave one competitor after another in his slipstream.
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You'll be touching 185 mph in seventh and, if you time it right, you can pop out of the slipstream of the guy in front and nip inside.
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Probably best to stick with full-on races, though, because of the extra speed you get from riding in the slipstream of other racers.
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And he was quickly into overdrive in yesterday 's final round to leave his rivals trailing in his slipstream.
The Sun
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Zurich's version has the misfortune of arriving on the scene in the slipstream, just as of one of the recording industry's greatest DVD masterpieces has majestically roared past.
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The band hail from Slade in County Wexford and their sound is noted for its warmth of production, the harmony of acoustic guitar and the quietly funky, perfectly timed slipstreams of electronica.
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By mid distance, Carroll was right with Rossiter and shot out of his slipstream at Church corner in a brave move.
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When I went into turn 13 I was just having an oversteering car pitching very much and obviously Michael had a clear run and caught my slipstream.
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Unlike the serene slipstream voyage out from Arcturus, the high-warp voyage to Mu Arae was giving the da Vinci a thorough shaking.
Creative Couplings
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This aircraft company was awarded a US Army contract to study vectored slipstreams and produce an aircraft that could test the concept.
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He is getting wiser in his old age having mastered the art of slipstreaming behind well built ladies.
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As it rocketed past over our heads, the slipstream buffeted us.
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At the heart of this term "slipstream" is an image of a zone of turbulence, where mainstream and genre fictions mix.
Why Do I Infernokrush?
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At this time they threatened to publicly expose certain information relating to Dr. Luis Garcia del Moral unless Slipstream acceded to their demands, which included a payment of €500,000 to Trent.
Statement from Slipstream Sports regarding Trent Lowe
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She was using my slipstream to save her the energy of facing the wind resistance, very tactical but it made her a sitting duck for weaponry.
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Henry, the world championship silver medallist last year, has been happy to slipstream almost unnoticed.
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And he was quickly into overdrive in yesterday 's final round to leave his rivals trailing in his slipstream.
The Sun
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With the now usual slipstreaming battles going on, positions changed several times each lap and Danilo was in the thick of the action, finding himself in 4th position on lap 8.
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When the large boxes slide out the back of a C-l7, they hit the slipstream and break up.
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All "magic realism" and slipstream is labeled as fantasy for simplicity.
The Ultimate Guide to Modern Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The term slipstream was coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in an article originally published in SF Eye #5, July 1989.
New Wave Fabulists: "Make It Weird"
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Unfortunately, the circuit has been altered since then to reduce the speeds, with some revisions to discourage slipstreaming and to lower the average lap speed.
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Most every time you ride another racer's slipstream, you'll easily overtake their position long before the meter fills.
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With three laps to go, Klaffenbock, who had taken advantage of backmarkers holding up Webster to slipstream and then bob past him, was being hounded by the seven time world champion when the drama unfolded on the last lap.
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I've been struggling with slipstreaming up until now, because there didn't seem to be any visual feedback to let you know when it's working.
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You can slipstream down the long start-finish straight and pass under braking into turn one, but it is a very tight turn.
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I made a semi-carrier type of approach in a left-hand turn with my head sticking out into the slipstream.
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After all, the good doctor's elder son Morty was already a pre-med at Columbia, and the assumption was that Richard would follow in his brother's slipstream.
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Those involved haven't the perspective or the judgement to realise that a moment's loss of control can end in death, as it did, in the street outside Anabel's and break the hearts of everyone caught in the slipstream.
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I push the gas pedal up into its recess, the heel of my shoe against the carpet, and the car squeals forward with an accelerated slipstream.
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She chose to walk an extraordinary path, leading a whole slipstream of women to a fresh way of thinking, of being.
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In Nick's case, continuously driving in a slipstream hampered the air flow to cool the engine which created an additional problem.
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COM probe almost out of our range,'summer said.'slipstream space matrix collapse imminent.
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Unfortunately on the restart, I had a lot of wheelspin which allowed Michael to take the slipstream and get past.
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Make sure you anticipate the left-turning tendencies of a slipstream effect and ‘P factor.’
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Feather vibration in the slipstream produces the remarkable throbbing known as ‘drumming’.
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Inevitably, we have to find a compromise between the optimum performance for qualifying, and race conditions where slipstreaming will come into play or when the wind might have changed direction.
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Hushovd, in with a shout of taking the yellow jersey after his fifth place in Saturday's prologue time-trial, led the sprint out but he had Kirsipuu in his slipstream.
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With a sudden blur of motion a single-person craft emerged from a slipstream.
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A crowded street will self-organise into lanes with individuals inadvertently falling into the slipstream of others.
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In 1997 the Irish punt rose in the slipstream of the British pound to its upper limits against all other currencies.
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There was the ghost of a slipstream behind me before the searing, slashing sting of the cane bit deeply into my flesh and the wave of pain spread throughout me like frozen meat instantly defrosting.
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But it shouldn't mask the fact that when he was on a football pitch he was the supremo, the quick-footed star of the game who had tricks and skills to burn and opponents trailing in his slipstream.
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The ‘Death of God’ might have arrived on the wings of relativism, which glided in on the slipstream of Western rationalism.
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Also important are the rotation of the slipstream and the change of downwash at the tail.
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Ballymote now know how most of Sligo's Intermediate clubs felt when cringing in their classy slipstream throughout 2003.
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Nine minutes later, and the jet propulsion of Samuel allowed him to leave red shirts in his slipstream to fasten on to a Henry through ball.
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The end instrumental ‘Centre of Gravity’ is a worthy corker too, layered drone like synths that make you want to lie back close your eyes and drift away in their slipstream of cathedralesque abandonment.
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I was walking behind a woman in the slipstream of her scent and I must admit it was wonderful; I would have followed her to the ends of the earth, but we got to my office building first!
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Bruseghin went for a very long sprint, gritting his teeth uphill, but in the last 100m, the all-white Di Luca just came out of his slipstream and edged past.
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You will also feel very well protected with the hood down as a low driving position and high sides combine with a raked windscreen to send the slipstream and insects up and over your head.
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There are many surrealist, experimentalist, metafictional, slipstream or simply unclassifiable modes of strange fiction -- some published as SF, some as Fantasy and some as Horror -- that maintain estrangement by worldbreaking rather than dreambuilding, with many of the novels of Philip K. Dick being prime examples.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Unfortunately on the restart, I had a lot of wheelspin which allowed Michael to take the slipstream and get past.
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With drafting - sitting in the slipstream of the bike in front - being a legal part of the cycling leg at elite level, many top races become something of a procession with the places being sorted out on the run.
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The predominant cockpit sound is of the slipstream, rather than the resonant drone of the radial engines.
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Slipstream is all about an old man's musings on life, death and God.
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Slipstream as originally defined by Sterling is more than just the interzone between sf and mainstream.
Archive 2008-08-01
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In fact, in a way I think he could even be called “the godfather of slipstream” in that 21st century definition of slipstream, not infernokrusher nor Sterling’s original intent, but what the term slipstream has mutated into for the way he composed stories and used his materials.
Nelson Bond | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
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I tend to read very unusual fiction - horror, dark fantasy, slipstream and "fabulist" or "New Weird", and anything that touches on gender, race and sexual issues.
INTO THIS MIND -- Opening Chapters
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After exiting slipstream, the Andromeda is captured by the gravitational attraction of a small moon.
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The question has come up more than once in the slipstream of the surge of media reports on labor unrest in Guangdong.
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They said we had been caught in a slipstream with another aircraft.
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Monza often produces some fantastic races - and if your bike is not on the pace you can still slipstream.
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In some activities, riding another person's coattails is frowned upon, but in cycling the practice, known as slipstreaming, is an art form.
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A small meter will appear above the opposing racer and the longer you stay in his slipstream, the more the meter will fill.
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They suggest a type of slipstream— Her words were silenced by an enormous judder, which snapped the bridge around in a dizzying spin, hurling Voktra, Commander Marist, the chairman and everyone else pinwheeling across consoles and slamming painfully into walls and pillars.
Star Trek The Next Generation®
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If they had swimming in a round pool, you'd see all the swimmers chasing each other, trying to slipstream and upset each other.
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Added to this are many extra rules to include slipstreaming, braking, collisions, etc.
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Just before the finish, the trailing rider pulls out of the slipstream, and using their fresher legs may be able to overtake their opponent just before the line.
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As the power comes in, the spiraling slipstream tends to yaw the aircraft to the left, especially at low speed.
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I liked the old Hockenheim much more because of the long, narrow straights where slipstreaming was possible.
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That is, regardless if the guests come bearing news from the world outside or if they come as poems, interruptions flowing from a slipstream from within, asking for the world to stop.
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After all, the good doctor's elder son Morty was already a pre-med at Columbia, and the assumption was that Richard would follow in his brother's slipstream.
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Follow the rider in front of you so you're still in his slipstream after the corner.
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It was Ally that we really wanted to punch, but poor old Bridget just got sucked along in Ally's slipstream.
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But slipstreaming so closely hinders airflow into the trailing car's radiator and can cause its engine to overheat.
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Be sure to latch open the inside hatch before jettisoning the outside hatch, otherwise the suction of the slipstream would hold the inside hatch closed and you would be trapped.
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He left a host of other riders trailing in his slipstream.
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Unfortunately, a slow pit stop brought Barichello back to the pack which included a fast rising Juan Pablo, who slipstreamed past Schumacher to take the lead.
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It was then that Beryl Bartholomew came running out of the vicarage's gravelled drive, her long and flimsy nightie flowing in her slipstream, her bare feet seemingly oblivious to the harsh ground underfoot.
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That essay was decidedly ambivalent in tone and John Clute, who prefers the more scholarly sounding term fabulation, noted that ‘slipstream’ had inappropriately derogatory connotations.
What Is Slipstream?
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Within the cosy ghetto of serious science fiction and fantasy readers, the term "slipstream" is sometimes used as a label for stories that linger in the liminal borderlands between die-hard genre definitions.
Genre Fiction
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Beckett shows what it is like to be aware in a single moment, rather than drifting in the slipstream of culturally mediated discursive patterns of thought.
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Pereiro took advantage coming out of his slipstream for the victory.
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Since cross winds will drift the slipstream downwind, a pace line must echelon to get the benefit of drafting in a cross wind.
