Transrealist writing treats immediate perceptions in a fantastic
way, according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy
Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in
this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the
fantastic from the standpoint of richly personalized experience.
Transrealism is also related to slipstream writing, another
category introduced into studies of speculative fiction to account
for texts that seem to follow trajectories mapped by the huge body
of science fiction accumulated in the last century, while retaining
a central interest in traditional literary strategies.
This book examines a variety of work from the transrealist
perspective, something that has not been done previously. It
emphasizes the texts of Philip K. Dick and Rucker himself, while it
additionally engages the texts of such slipstream writers as Kurt
Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and John Barth. It places its argument
against the antihumanist trend in science fiction and builds
comparisons with more traditional varieties of science fiction
works.
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