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Originally Posted by afa
Thanks, Paul. A simple description to get across what DD and I were too full of words to describe. (Is it because we read too much speculative fiction??)
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I think my problem is that in a Venn diagram
of my library Fiction and Speculative Fiction are NEARLY one-to-one. I don't read cozy mysteries, thrillers, or romance, for the most part.
Even when you look at English Major Literature, nearly every piece I have is a dystopia by Atwood or Bradbury or Orwell (Speculative), or magical realism by Rushdie or Marquez (Speculative), or space exploration and the effect on mankind (too many to name, but all Speculative).
So... I guess I'm saying it makes more sense to me for an umbrella term for the NON-speculative stuff since, in my library at least, it's a minority. But I make not the names for things.
