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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
"Speculative fiction" is kind of a broad term to include all of SF, Fantasy, Horror, and all points in between. I don't have the same chip on my shoulder about it that you do, but I do agree that the broadness leads to ambiguity. Pavane, and other alternate history books such as PKD's Man in the High Castle or any number of Harry Turtledove's books, are essentially a sub-set of Science Fiction. However, Pavane in particular borders on Steampunk and Science Fantasy as well. It's pretty good, a look at the thread in our message board will find me having somewhat mixed feelings about it (I use the name ljim2000 therebouts). Overall, it's quite well written, however.
I do reccomend the Author Central forum from the Science Fiction board as a great place to get all kinds of conversational reccomendations of SF to read since you say you're looking for that. |
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My upset with the speculative fiction term basically boils down to the fact that it seems like a cheap ploy to dress up sci-fi and make it acceptable for people that think sci-fi is for geeks. Same with graphic novels, it's a comic for fuck sake. (although I must admit I will use the term graphic novel...I am a prick)