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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.
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Frederik George Pohl Jr. science-fiction writer , editor , and fan , with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led .
From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited
Galaxy and its sister magazine
If ; the latter won three successive annual
Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel
Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science-fiction writers, and the juried academic
John W. Campbell Memorial Award . He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas
The Years of the City , one of two repeat winners during the first 40 years. For his 1979 novel
Jem , Pohl won a U.S.
National Book Award in the
one-year category Science Fiction , and it was a finalist for three other year's best novel awards. He won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards, including receiving both for the 1977 novel
Gateway . (
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Planet of the Apes science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a post-apocalyptic world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control as the dominant species . The franchise started with French author Pierre Boulle 's 1963 novel La Planète des singes Planet of the Apes or Monkey Planet . Its 1968 film adaptation, Planet of the Apes Arthur P. Jacobs produced the first five Apes films through APJAC Productions for distributor 20th Century Fox ; following his death in 1973, Fox controlled the franchise, before its acquisition by Disney in 2019.
Four sequels followed the original film from 1970 to 1973: Beneath the Planet of the Apes Escape from the Planet of the Apes Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Battle for the Planet of the Apes live-action television series in 1974 and an animated series in 1975. Plans for a film remake stalled in "development hell " for over 10 years before the 2001 release of Planet of the Apes Tim Burton . A reboot film series commenced in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes Dawn of the Planet of the Apes War for the Planet of the Apes Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Full article...
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Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making. The whole process of science is wildly under-represented in science fiction because it's not easy to write about. There are many facets of science that are almost exactly opposite of dramatic narrative. It's slow, tedious, inconclusive, it's hard to tell good guys from bad guys—it's everything that a normal hour of Star Trek is not.
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Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952), Interview, Locus [1]
Frontispiece to the 1825/1826 edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron, published by W. Dugdale, Russell Court, Drury Lane. The engraving is by I. H. Jones.
Credit: I. H. Jones (illustration), Adam Cuerden (restoration)
Frontispiece to the 1825/1826 edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Lord Byron , published by W. Dugdale, Russell Court, Drury Lane. The engraving is by I. H. Jones.
The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant theme restaurant at Disney's Hollywood Studios , one of the four main theme parks at Walt Disney World . Established in May 1991, the restaurant is modeled after a 1950s drive-in theater . Walt Disney Imagineering designed the booths to resemble convertibles of the period, and some servers act as carhops while wearing roller skates. While eating, guests watch a large projection screen displaying clips of 1950s and 1960s films as Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster Plan 9 from Outer Space Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
The restaurant serves traditional
cuisine of the United States . Popcorn functions as a complimentary
hors d'oeuvre . Initially, the menu listed items with themed names, such as "Tossed in Space" (
garden salad ), "The Cheesecake that Ate New York", and "Attack of the Killer Club Sandwich", but these playful names were later altered so that they now describe the dishes in a more standard and straightforward manner. (
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Possible events in the future as suggested by science fiction:
In 802,701, The Time Traveller encounters a garden world and sees Humanity has divided into the meek Eloi on the surface and the subdwelling, cannibalistic Morlocks.
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