Paul Beardsley
5 Quotations from Paul Beardsley
| infodumping n. | 1999 Audio Reviews in Interzone (#145) July 62/3 Apart from Alex’s occasional commentary in A Clockwork Orange, the aforementioned plays rely entirely on dialogue for infodumping and scene description—which, to the scriptwriters' credit, is never contrived or obtrusive. |
| slipstream n. | 1994 Small-Press Reviews in Interzone (#86) Aug. 61/3 Here he describes slipstream as ‘an emergent phenomena,’ so it is fortunate that this version omits the remark that genre writers ‘don’t know how to write.’ (I would be less picky if the claims for slipstream, made here and elsewhere, were less inflated—when people describe it as the interface between genre and mainstream, for instance, I wonder if they've actually read any mainstream.) |
| slipstream n. | 1994 Small-Press Magazines in Interzone (#89) Nov. 61/1 Stories range from William Meikle’s ‘The Divine Wind,’ this issue’s ‘slipstream’ piece (which in this context means ‘twee’), to puerile fantasies about talking skeletons and women getting butchered. |
| slipstream n. | 1995 Magazine Reviews in Interzone (#98) Aug. 61/1 (review of Dreams From the Stranger’s Cafe) It’s another one that claims not to be horror, fantasy, sf, or even slipstream (annoyingly referred to as ‘the “s” word’). |
| slipstream n. | 1995 Small Press Magazines in Interzone (#91) Jan. 61/2 Territories issue four is subtitled the sf and slipstream journal. In this context, the meaning of ‘slipstream’ is refreshingly unpretentious, something along the lines of ‘non-SF things that are likely to interest SF readers’. |