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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
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.
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.
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I think where the confusion is coming in at is that
as a whole "horror, fantasy, (paranormal) romance, high fantasy, etc" would fall UNDER Spec Fic. This covers everything that would be fantastic. You want zombie brain eaters? That's spec fic -->horror
Zombie Romance (A la Dearly, Departed) that's Spec fic --> Paranormal Romance
Shooting Zombies with Ak-47's in a city? Spec Fic -->Urban Fantasy
If you are just looking for fiction where the author made up a story then you could get The Lady and the Unicorn:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...nd_the_Unicorn