Warp schrieb:

>   Isn't *all* fiction speculative? If a piece of art is not speculative
> fiction, then it's a documentary (if not outright a historical account).
> Kind of makes the word "speculative" a bit obsolete. Or is there some type
> of fiction other than speculative?

I wouldn't call most pulp fiction "speculative". It usually just tries 
to entertain, typically being set in a familiar world, without raising 
any questions of "what-if" (i.e. speculate) - unless of course you 
include trivial speculations such as "what if this guy now falls in love 
with that girl" in that definition.

I wouldn't even consider most whodunits as "speculative", even though 
there's inevitably a lot of speculation going on, as those are no 
/fundamental/ "what-ifs", and the aim of the story is not to have the 
reader /speculate/, but /discover/.

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