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Originally Posted by Kevin8or
IIf a story has fantasy traits then it's not "speculative fiction." Anyone can convince himself of this fact by reading the definitions of speculation and speculative. |
I think you're wrong here. Indeed, one of the items in the first definition of speculative is conjecture, which is certainly part of creating a fantasy universe.
Fantasy is an exploration of how the universe might be if it obeyed different rules (or no rules). That falls firmly under speculation for me.