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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories in which the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style. | | | A science fiction story may be firmly rooted in real scientific possibilities as they are understood at the time of writing, as in Arthur C. Clarke's novel A Fall of Moondust, or highly imaginative, set in an extraterrestrial civilization or a parallel universe, as in Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves. | | | Early science fiction was published in books and in general circulation magazines. |
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| | Fiction |
| | Editors Carolyn Clink and Robert Sawyer selected it for the anthology Tesseracts 6, sixth in a series of anthologies of speculative fiction by Canadians. | | | I've always thought he'd be delighted at the irony of a poet's daughter becoming a science fiction writer--probably the literature of social commentary. | | | got to the first draft stage at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop at Michigan State University in 1995. |
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http://www.sff.net/people/nalo/writing/fiction
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| | Forget the Fiction. The Agony Column for November 23, 2002 Commentary by Rick Kleffel |
| | In the Introduction to Reginald Gulliver's 'Eruntics', Lem amazingly, while writing speculative non-fiction, directly addresses the concept of speculative non-fiction and its relation to literature as a whole and science fiction in particular. | | | If you read speculative fiction to experience that rush of newness and insight that you get from any great fiction, flavored with a dollop of strange, the first step to take is the one away from the SF shelves at your bookstore. | | | First a quick shot back in time to one of the first bits of speculative non-fiction I ever encountered. |
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http://www.trashotron.com/agony/columns/11-23-02.htm
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| | Lost Books - What is Speculative Fiction? |
| | Thus, Speculative Fiction gives a writer the power to create whatever circumstances or cultures necessary to the tale he/she wishes to share. | | | Speculative Fiction is an umbrella term I like to use because it includes all the forms of fantastic fiction or what for ages has been called science fiction and fantasy. | | | Speculative Fiction is a term that has not been embraced entirely by the writers, editors, and critics in the science fiction, fantasy and horror fields. |
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http://www.lostbooks.org/speculative-fiction.html
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| | Rick Sutcliffe's Fiction Index |
| | Futuristic fiction is a catch-all term used by some publishers for any or all of speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and apocalyptic literature. | | | Alternate history fiction is a sub-genre of speculative fiction, the plot elements of which hinge on a history different that what has happened in our world. | | | In the branch of speculative fiction called science fiction, some element of science or technology is critical to the plot, and there is no magic. |
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http://www.arjay.bc.ca/Fiction
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| | Bookslut Defining Stephenson |
| | It is both a textbook example of what speculative fiction can be and a cautionary tale about what it is not. | | | If TorÂs mountain or BaenÂs rocket is on the spine, you know it will turn up in the speculative fiction section. | | | Despite the numerous definitions that lurk in dictionaries and hard drives (like Âscience fiction is a story based on fictional, scientific possibilities or ÂFantasy is a tale that has events happening that could never happen in the natural worldÂ, none actually satisfies. |
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http://www.bookslut.com/specfic_floozy/2004_05_002063.php
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Olaf Stapledon's Darkness and the Light, which presents two possible futures for mankind defined by developments in ethics and philosophy, is a good example of speculative fiction. | | | Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. | | | The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternative histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories where the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style. |
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Olaf Stapledon's Darkness and the Light, which presents two possible futures for mankind defined by developments in ethics and philosophy, is a good example of speculative fiction. | | | Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. | | | The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternative histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories where the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style. |
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| | Editorial: Where Does Genre Come From?, by Jed Hartman |
| | One of the most important reasons for such explorations is that speculative fiction readers are often blind to what's going on outside of the worlds of science fiction and fantasy publishing (and similarly, literary-fiction readers are often contemptuously dismissive of speculative fiction without knowing anything about it). | | | Still, I'm interested in exploring genre definitions and boundaries, and in looking at fiction that crosses genres, or that falls into the interstices between genres. | | | The language of classic science fiction is often transparent, using prose that doesn't call attention to itself; the language of hard-boiled detective novels feels succinct and direct but is surprisingly full of metaphor; the language of high fantasy tends toward the archaic. |
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http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20011203/editorial.shtml
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| | SF After 1900 |
| | Some of the difficulty in describing science fiction is revealed in the sheer number of names that have been advanced for it: scientifiction, science fiction, SF, sf, stf, speculative fiction, speculative fabulation, structural fabulation, science fantasy (little wonder that one wag has suggested "sinus friction"). | | | Only the eclectic and expansive sense of literary genre advanced by this series can account for the many stages in the development of science fiction and only an understanding of the importance of science fiction's unique extratextual dimension can account for its phenomenal growth in popularity and cultural influence in the twentieth century. | | | Just as it's hard to imagine that a reader of this book will never have read a work of science fiction, it's hard to imagine that a reader will have exhaustive knowledge of the field. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/faculty/landon/brooks/sfafter/sfa.html
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| | Interesting Links - Noteworthy Book Sites |
| | Fiction Inferno: A free literary journal publishing the most exciting short speculative fiction, fantasy fiction, and strange fiction available.... | | | Fiction Inferno--the speculative fiction literary magazine that burns you up... | | | Fiction, non-fiction, how-to books of every description, look no further.... |
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http://www.malinche.net/links/noteworthybooksites.html
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| | Horror fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror." Horror fiction often overlaps with science fiction and/or fantasy, all of which have sometimes been placed under the umbrella category speculative fiction. | | | Fictional characters have found themselves in horrifying situations from the earliest recorded tales. | | | Modern horror fiction found its roots in the gothic novels that exploded into popularity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, typified by Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. |
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| | Fannish Definitions |
| | "X Fandom" is the collection of all the fans of X where X is some particular TV Show, movie, (or book) or if X=SF, then it means fans of Science Fiction (whether that be Media (TV shows and Movies) or Lit (books)) in its loosest sense (Speculative Fiction, SFandF). | | | In fannish circles, in relation to fiction, it refers to a character in a story who is the recognisable embodiment of a character from some fannish universe. | | | Original fiction written by fans of a particular TV Show/Movie (or sometimes book) set in the universe depicted by that work. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Political ideas in science fiction |
| | Space opera is a subgenre of speculative fiction or science fiction that emphasizes romantic adventure, interstellar travel, and space battles where the main storyline is centred around interstellar conflict and character drama. | | | Hostile Takover Omnibus edition published by DAW books in 2004 Hostile Takeover is a science fiction trilogy (actually one long novel in three parts) written by S. Andrew Swann and published by DAW Books where the main setting is the Anarcho-capitalist planet of Bakunin. | | | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a lunar penal colonys revolt against rule from Earth. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Political-ideas-in-science-fiction
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| | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| | Originally published in Asimov's and Analog magazines, these classic stories have garnered numerous literary awards and span every style and theme in speculative fiction. | | | A Woman's Liberation is a powerful collection of stories by acclaimed best-selling female writers who have changed the nature of visionary fiction. | | | From centuries of repression to private moments of triumph, from a plague of silence to an era that curses menstruation, these stirring tales explore the complexities of imagination and the boundless scope of the human experience. |
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| | Library Journal - SCI-FI 101 |
| | Science fiction and fantasy are both fantastic, speculative genres, but the speculation in sci-fi is based on science and technology. | | | Readers might outgrow a genre or a library, but sometimes they have merely outgrown a branch and need to know about the books available to them through the system. | | | This information is a hook on which you can hang your knowledge of genre, author, and story characteristics to help the reader choose a book. |
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| | Speculative Vision Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| | Speculative Vision Science Fiction and Fantasy © 1996 - 2005 Brad Richardson. | | | Publish your stories and poetry for free on Speculative Vision and gain valuable feedback from fellow writers and SFF fans. | | | Our collection of full text classic Science Fiction and Fantasy provides hours of reading enjoyment. |
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is sometimes applied, more generally, to any fantasy at all (generally so in US bookstores), but, in that case, the larger category of speculative fiction is more inclusive. | | | literature which overlaps with the themes of science fiction. | | | A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West. |
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| | Mormon Stereotypes in Popular Fiction |
| | Each is used to describe the Mormons of the past in Westerns and historical romances, the Mormons of the present in detective fiction and true-crime literature, and the Mormons of the future in science-fiction novels and other forms of speculative fiction. | | | Even the dialogue that Kijewski constructs for her Mormon characters, with all of it "yeah verily's" and "thus sayeth the Lord's," comes straight out of the worst nineteenth century fiction. | | | A Study in Scarlet chronicles the inaugural adventure of the most famous fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes, and can reasonably be considered the first modern series mystery novel. |
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Olaf Stapledon's Darkness and the Light, which presents two possible futures for mankind defined by developments in ethics and philosophy, is a good example of speculative fiction. | | | Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. | | | The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternative histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories where the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style. |
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Olaf Stapledon's Darkness and the Light, which presents two possible futures for mankind defined by developments in ethics and philosophy, is a good example of speculative fiction. | | | The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternative histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories where the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style. | | | A science fiction story may be very realistic, as in Arthur C. Clarke's novel A Fall of Moondust, or highly imaginative, set in an extraterrestrial civilization or a parallel universe, as in Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves. |
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| | Amy England |
| | One area in which feminist science fiction writers have particularly flourished is in feminist speculative fiction, a genre that blurs the boundaries between hard science fiction and fantasy. | | | Marleen Barr, one of the foremost critics of feminist speculative fiction, suggests that the way to gain acceptance from the canon is to distance feminist speculative fiction from its science fiction roots by focusing instead on its postmodern aspects. | | | So I am embarrassed I read 'fiction,' and I am embarrassed I don't read "literature' when I do read fiction" (1). |
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| | Fiction Department - Enoch Pratt Free Library |
| | The Science Fiction Romance Newsletter has been around since 1993 and provides information on speculative romance, which is the blending of romance and the science fiction/fantasy genres. | | | It will provide you with resources to find reviews of romance fiction, so you can find out what the critics and other romance lovers are saying about romance titles. | | | It is a comprehensive database covering fiction and is a lot of fun to explore; all you need is a favorite title, author, or fiction genre to search for similar titles. |
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| | Fantastic Fiction |
| | An introduction to the Fantastic Queensland projects including schools,networks,links and publications for the creation and celebration of speculative fiction. | | | A Virtual Library: The Latest on Hundreds of Crime, Mystery and Fantastic Fiction Authors and their Books... | | | More than a thousand bibliographies of the best science fiction, fantasy and horror authors, with author pictures, book covers, etexts and links... |
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| | FCEA NEWSLETTER |
| | Dark City, as many other works of speculative fiction, asks questions about time and about memory. | | | There are numerous categories and sub-genres of speculative fiction, but generally there is a distinction between hard science fiction which concentrates on scientific detail and soft science fiction which focuses on sociopolitical themes. | | | Perhaps one of the reasons science fiction has remained so popular with both readers and authors is that it can be turned to serious purposes without ever losing the element of fun that makes any good story essentially entertaining and a pleasure rather than a duty to read. |
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http://www.flacea.org/Archives/newsletterS2005.htm
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| | Genre Fiction Horror |
| | Dark Stories - Site offers speculative fiction, horror, and dark humor. | | | Fright Library - Horror fiction by the site's author, with links to classic literature and other published works, games, and political commentary. | | | Dark Icon - Original works of science fiction, fantasy and horror. |
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| | science fiction - encyclopedia article about science fiction. |
| | Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction Speculative fiction is an all-encompassing term which includes science fiction, alternative history (fiction), horror and fantasy. | | | Sometimes, utopic and dystopic literature is regarded as science fiction (accurate insofar as sociology is science); however, dystopic literature sometimes falls under the cyber punk genre. | | | The premiere literary awards of science fiction, the Hugo Awards, are awarded by members of the annual Worldcon, which is almost entirely run by fan volunteers; the other major science fiction literary award is the Nebula. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/science+fiction
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| | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| | Originally published in Asimov's and Analog magazines, these classic stories have garnered numerous literary awards and span every style and theme in speculative fiction. | | | A Woman's Liberation is a powerful collection of stories by acclaimed best-selling female writers who have changed the nature of visionary fiction. | | | From centuries of repression to private moments of triumph, from a plague of silence to an era that curses menstruation, these stirring tales explore the complexities of imagination and the boundless scope of the human experience. |
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http://www.asimovs.com
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| | Short Story, Art, Poetry, Cartoon, Mystery Magazine - Futures MYSTERY Anthology Magazine |
| | We want to publish the best mysteries written today, and if that means that the story has a subplot that is horror, romance, science fiction, or any sort of speculative fiction, even literary, well, so be it. | | | Short stories, mystery fiction, illustrations, crime, suspense tales, cartoons, writer's contests and book reviews constitute Futures MYSTERY Anthology Magazine! | | | Tales of brave, strong women have been a mainstay of mystery fiction since the beginning of the genre. |
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| | CVCO - Overbooked: Awards |
| | Specializing in speculative fiction awards, but numerous other links are provided. | | | The Christy Award is named in honor of Catherine Marshall’s novel, Christy, and of her contribution to growth of the fiction Christians love to read. | | | Links to award sites, and annotated lists of nominees and winners from 1996 to the present (fiction only). |
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