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Warp wrote:
> Isn't *all* fiction speculative?
People generally don't call historical (for example) fiction "speculative".
E.g., the movie Titanic wouldn't be "speculative" even if it was
fictionalized. Neither would the movie "Die Hard" or "Basterds". They're
merely fiction.
I think the "speculative" part is "if you're in a different society
altogether..." It's hard to quantify, of course, but I'd say speculative
fiction says "how would people react if their environment was something we
never considered before", rather than "show me an example of someone
reacting to a fairly normal situation."
In speculative fiction, you get relatively normal people (normal for their
culture, of course) reacting to unusual (unusual for us) events. In other
fiction, you get exceptional people (like Bruce Willis plays) reacting to
relatively normal events. The former is about the culture and society, while
the latter is about the individuals.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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