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Speculative fiction umbrella phrase encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres , specifically science fiction , fantasy , horror , supernatural fiction , superhero fiction , utopian and dystopian fiction , apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction , and alternate history in literature as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts.
It has been around since humans began to speak. The earliest forms of speculative fiction were likely mythological tales told around the campfire. Speculative fiction deals with the "What if?" scenarios imagined by dreamers and thinkers worldwide. Journeys to other worlds through the vast reaches of distant space; magical quests to free worlds enslaved by terrible beings; malevolent supernatural powers seeking to increase their spheres of influence across multiple dimensions and times; all of these fall into the realm of speculative fiction.
Speculative fiction as a category ranges from ancient works to cutting edge , paradigm -changing, and neotraditional works of the 21st century. It can be recognized in works whose authors' intentions or the social contexts of the versions of stories they portrayed is now known. For example, Ancient Greek dramatists such as Euripides , whose play Medea (play) Athenian audiences when he fictionally speculated that shamaness Medea killed her own children instead of their being killed by other Corinthians after her departure. The play Hippolytus Aphrodite , is suspected to have displeased contemporary audiences of the day because it portrayed Phaedra as too lusty.
In historiography , what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed "historical invention", "historical fiction ," and other similar names. It is extensively noted in the literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta , English fairy Puck , and Roman god Cupid all together in the fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream mythography it has been termed "mythopoesis" or mythopoeia , "fictional speculation", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings supernatural , alternate history , and sexuality themes continue in works produced within the modern speculative fiction genre.
Aldous Leonard Huxley AWL -dəsnon-fiction works , as well as essays, narratives and poems.
Born into the prominent
Huxley family , he graduated from
Balliol College, Oxford , with a degree in
English literature . Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine
Oxford Poetry , before going on to publish
travel writing , satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in
Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the
Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected
Companion of Literature by the
Royal Society of Literature in 1962. (
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Several portions of the long-running British
science-fiction television programme
Doctor Who are no longer held by the
BBC . Between 1967 and 1978, the BBC routinely
deleted archive programmes for various practical reasons—lack of space, scarcity of materials, and a lack of rebroadcast rights. As a result, 97 of 253 episodes from the programme's first six years are currently missing, primarily from
seasons 3 ,
4 and
5 , leaving 26
serials incomplete. Many more were considered lost until recovered from various sources, mostly overseas broadcasters.
Doctor Who is not unique in its losses, as many broadcasters routinely cleared their archives in this manner. Until the BBC changed its archiving policy in 1978, thousands of hours of programming in all genres were deleted. Other affected BBC series include Hancock's Half Hour Dad's Army Z-Cars The Likely Lads The Wednesday Play Till Death Us Do Part Steptoe and Son Dixon of Dock Green Not Only... But Also ITV regional franchisees, such as Rediffusion Television and Associated Television , also deleted many programmes, including early videotaped episodes of The Avengers Full article...
“
The hardest theme in science fiction is that of the alien. The simplest solution of all is in fact quite profound—that the real difficulty lies not in understanding what is alien, but in understanding what is self . We are all aliens to each other, all different and divided. We are even aliens to ourselves at different stages of our lives. Do any of us remember precisely what it was like to be a baby?
”
—
Greg Bear (b.1951), "Introduction to 'Plague of Conscience'",
The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2002).
The Tempest , Act I, Scene 1 An engraving of action from Act I, Scene 1 from William Shakespeare 's The Tempest Prospero (right) has caused the ship carrying his brother Antonio and the King of Naples Alonso to run aground on the island to which he and his daughter Miranda had been exiled . The play is believed to have been written in 1610–11 and is now considered to be one of Shakespeare's greatest works. (POTD )
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Selected article First issue of Amazing Stories , art by Frank R. Paul . This copy was autographed by Hugo Gernsback in 1965. Amazing Stories science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback 's Experimenter Publishing . It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction . Science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction .
As of 2024,
[update] Amazing has been published, with some interruptions, for 98 years, going through a half-dozen owners and many editors as it struggled to be profitable. Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy and lost control of the magazine in 1929. In 1938 it was purchased by
Ziff-Davis , which hired
Raymond A. Palmer as editor. Palmer made the magazine successful though it was not regarded as a quality magazine within the science fiction community. In the late 1940s
Amazing presented as fact stories about the
Shaver Mystery , a lurid mythos that explained accidents and disaster as the work of robots named deros, which led to dramatically increased circulation but widespread ridicule.
Amazing switched to a
digest size format in 1953, shortly before the end of
the pulp-magazine era . It was sold to Sol Cohen's Universal Publishing Company in 1965, which filled it with reprinted stories but did not pay a reprint fee to the authors, creating a conflict with the newly formed
Science Fiction Writers of America .
Ted White took over as editor in 1969, eliminated the reprints and made the magazine respected again:
Amazing was nominated for the prestigious
Hugo Award three times during his tenure in the 1970s. Several other owners attempted to create a modern incarnation of the magazine in the following decades, but publication was suspended after the March 2005 issue. A new incarnation appeared in July 2012 as an online magazine. Print publication resumed with the Fall 2018 issue. (
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Possible events in the future as suggested by science fiction:
Jenny , the daughter of the Doctor , is born on July 24, 6012 on the planet Messaline.The planet Rubi-Ka is discovered in 28702 by the Omni-Tek Corporation.
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