I’m a genre reader and I didn’t know it! Bruce Sterling surveys the modern literary scene and proposes to define a new genre of fiction: “(T)his is a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange; the way that living in the late twentieth century makes you feel, if you are a person of a certain sensibility.” Scanning the list of ‘slipstream’ works he attaches to the column, I find many of the most memorable novels I’ve read in the last, oh, twenty years or so. Catscan