Pynchon was here first. from a WSJ review. Slipstream fiction.

[Mark Kohut]

'....weaving of the real and unreal is part of a fast-growing strain
of fiction some call slipstream. The label slipstream encompasses
writing that slips in and out of conventional genres, borrowing from
science fiction, fantasy and horror. The approach, sometimes also
called "fantastika," "interstitial" and "the New Weird," often
feathers the unexpected in with the ordinary, such as the hotel in Ms.
Link's new collection of stories "Get in Trouble," where there are
side-by-side conferences, one for dentists and another for superheroes
in save-the-world costumes and regalia....'
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l