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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Oh c'mon.... you don't see a distinction between Peter Pan, Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes, Sookie Stackhouse and American Gods when compared to the likes of say; Huck Finn, Patterson's 'Alex Cross' novels, Blood Meridian, and Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels?
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No, not really. They're not textbooks, they're not "How to" books, they're not biographies. They're all made up characters, they're all "What if" stories created by the author.
And they already have their own genre's they seem to fit nicely in, if people want to get specific.
But backing up out of their specific genre's, they're all just "Fiction" to me. I don't see where "Speculative" adds anything to that.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I think you guys are getting a bit too hung up on the literal definition of the term "speculation."
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Since I'm trying to figure out what it is you're complaining about, series wise, and didn't understand what part of your complaint was about, that you're seeing it in "Speculative" literature and the web definitions weren't helping, all I can do is ask.
If you'd said "I've seen it a lot in High Fantasy lately", or "Mysteries" or "Steampunk" or "Hard Scifi" I'd have seen what you were getting at. I'm just trying to figure out what you're looking at that you're seeing it as a huge problem.