slipstream

IPA: sɫˈɪpstrim

The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
(figurative, by extension) A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
(uncountable, fiction) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.

To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.
(computing, transitive) To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.

Examples of "slipstream" in Sentences

All "magic realism" and slipstream is labeled as fantasy for simplicity.
By the offered definition, I think "slipstream" is — and has been, for over a quarter of a century — my favorite.
At the heart of this term "slipstream" is an image of a zone of turbulence, where mainstream and genre fictions mix.
The term slipstream was coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in an article originally published in SF Eye #5, July 1989.
We talk about why the new generation slipstream is not the fusion of literary fiction and SF/F. Fri 1200 Remembering Robert Anton WILSON
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.
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.
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.