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Speculative
Fiction
DOLOR SIT AMET
What is Speculation?
1. Act of presupposition

2. Not possessing adequate information

3. Imagination
Speculative Fiction Involves:
1. moving beyond the narrow logic of reality

2. tempering with the questions of fixed time and space

3. reimagining history

4. active imagination of the future

 Speculative Fiction Involves Many
Genres
1. folklore

2. fairy tales

3. animal tales

4. historical fiction

5. science fiction

6. epic

7. re-imagination of the epis

8. fantasy

9. Adventure stories (these are just a few)

What other genres would you consider in
our classification of speculative fiction?
1. Horror 9. Re-imagination

2. Superhero

3. Fantasy

4. Paranormal

5. Apocalyptic , post-apocalyptic

2. Comics

2. Detective fiction

3. Thrillers

4. Action

5. Mythology

6. Mystery

7. Psychological Thriller

8.Magical realism
Modern speculative fiction has been deeply tied to reimagination of the world

Modern speculative fiction has been deeply tied to the reimagination of the human relationships with
technology
Consequently, modern speculative fiction cannot be understood without an understanding of
capitalism.
Science fiction has often dominated the world of modern speculative fiction.
Science fiction often has reiterated notions of the “self” and “other” in a way that provides a mirror to
the actual race relations in the world.
Science fiction, historically, also has reproduced the conventional gender roles.
In other words, speculative fiction, are also deeply embedded within the social and political realities of
their times.

In other words, speculative fiction, as much as they are about the imaginary, cannot be separated from
the “real.”

In other words, speculative fiction are not THAT speculative to begin with.