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Old 12-06-2011, 11:21 AM   #117
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Originally Posted by DuskyRose View Post
Maybe I'm not catching what you mean by 'Speculative'. My understanding of it includes just about all the fiction there is...

"Speculative literature is a catch-all term meant to inclusively span the breadth of fantastic literature, encompassing literature ranging from hard science fiction to epic fantasy to ghost stories to horror to folk and fairy tales to slipstream to magical realism to modern myth-making -- and more."
Speculative Literature Foundation

So unless you're really meaning something more specific, I guess I'm just not seeing it.
It doesn't include 'non-genre', 'mainstream', 'literary' fiction: Fiction set in the real world, with events and characters that could have existed but didn't. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, for example, isn't speculative fiction, and nor is Kim by Rudyard Kipling.
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