If ???slipstream??? refers to the intersection of ???postmodernized sf??? (McHale 317), notably cyberpunk, and ???quasi-sf??? postmodernist fiction (McCaffery 2) by such writers as Thomas Pynchon and Kathy Acker (see articles by Hollinger, McCaffery, and McHale in Reality Studio for detailed lists), then it is clear that the common terms, the terms that require clarification, are postmodernism and