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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
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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OK... perfect example. Thank you so much. I was referring to ALL those labels you just mentioned—with the exception of Mysteries.
I was simply trying to use an umbrella term that "encompassed" all of High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Hard Scifi, Military Scifi, Space Opera, Steampunk, New Weird, Supernatural Romance, Magical Realism, Alternate History/Reality, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic and the like.
Speculative Fiction just seemed a lot quicker and easier to me than typing all that. And most people I interact with are familiar with the term. Sorry for assuming it was universally understood.
Give me a suitable label that encompasses all of those (^^) labels and I'll happily use it in the discussion from now on. As long as it's a little finer-grained than "fiction"—since I clearly don't mean ALL fiction. I mean High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Hard Scifi, Military Scifi, Space Opera, Steampunk, New Weird, Supernatural Romance, Magical Realism, Alternate History/Reality, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic and a few more I can't remember right now.
