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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
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.
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That definition works pretty well for me. But I'd say it leaves out quite a
bit of fiction: romance, mysteries, thrillers, westerns (traditional), historical fiction, action-adventure, inspirational... etc.
But for the sake of this discussion, let's just limit it to scifi/fantasy. The reason I
know that most authors are caving to publisher pressure to turn something into a series is because there's almost
no true stand-alone books being
published in the scifi/fantasy genres. If the authors were left to their own devices, I would expect more of a
balance between series and stand-alone... as exists in the other less "speculative" genres.