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Speculative fiction is an umbrella phrase encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres , specifically science fiction , fantasy , horror , supernatural fiction , superhero fiction , utopian and dystopian fiction , apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction , and alternate history in literature as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts.
It has been around since humans began to speak. The earliest forms of speculative fiction were likely mythological tales told around the campfire. Speculative fiction deals with the "What if?" scenarios imagined by dreamers and thinkers worldwide. Journeys to other worlds through the vast reaches of distant space; magical quests to free worlds enslaved by terrible beings; malevolent supernatural powers seeking to increase their spheres of influence across multiple dimensions and times; all of these fall into the realm of speculative fiction.
Speculative fiction as a category ranges from ancient works to cutting edge , paradigm -changing, and neotraditional works of the 21st century. It can be recognized in works whose authors' intentions or the social contexts of the versions of stories they portrayed is now known. For example, Ancient Greek dramatists such as Euripides , whose play Medea (play) seemed to have offended Athenian audiences when he fictionally speculated that shamaness Medea killed her own children instead of their being killed by other Corinthians after her departure. The play Hippolytus , narratively introduced by Aphrodite , is suspected to have displeased contemporary audiences of the day because it portrayed Phaedra as too lusty.
In historiography , what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed "historical invention", "historical fiction ," and other similar names. It is extensively noted in the literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta , English fairy Puck , and Roman god Cupid all together in the fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream . In mythography it has been termed "mythopoesis" or mythopoeia , "fictional speculation", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings . Such supernatural , alternate history , and sexuality themes continue in works produced within the modern speculative fiction genre.
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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist , and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG) . Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy , The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy " of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series , several stage plays, comics, a video game , and a 2005 feature film . Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy 's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote
The Meaning of Liff (1983),
The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and
Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series
Doctor Who , co-wrote
City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its
seventeenth season . He co-wrote the sketch "
Patient Abuse " for the final episode of
Monty Python's Flying Circus . A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as
The Salmon of Doubt in 2002. (
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Crush is a 2007
puzzle-platform game developed by
Kuju Entertainment 's
Zoë Mode studio and published by
Sega for the
PlayStation Portable . Its protagonist is Danny, a young man suffering from
insomnia , who uses an experimental device to explore his mind and discover the cause of his sleeplessness. Each level of the game, representing events from Danny's life and inspired by artists such as
Tim Burton and
M.C. Escher , requires the player to control Danny as he collects his "lost marbles" and other thoughts.
Crush ' s primary gameplay feature involves manipulating each game level between 3D and 2D views, allowing the player to reach platforms and locations inaccessible from within a different view. This element was noted by critics to be similar to one in Super Paper Mario , also released in 2007, though the Zoë Mode team had envisioned the concept five years prior. Crush received positive reviews upon release, with critics praising its incorporation of this dimension-shifting component alongside other aspects of the game presentation. Though Crush won several gaming awards, including PSP game of the month, it failed to meet the developer's sales expectations. A port of the game for the Nintendo 3DS called CRUSH3D was announced in January 2011 and was made available in January 2012 in Europe; in February 2012 in Australia; and in March 2012 in North America. (Full article... )
“
[Alternate history] is the very essence of what science fiction is all about.
”
—
Harry Harrison (b.1925), "The Time of the Other: Alternate History and the Conquest of America" in
Strange Horizons (2002).
Frontispiece to the 1825/1826 edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron, published by W. Dugdale, Russell Court, Drury Lane. The engraving is by I. H. Jones.
Credit: I. H. Jones (illustration), Adam Cuerden (restoration)
Frontispiece to the 1825/1826 edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron , published by W. Dugdale, Russell Court, Drury Lane. The engraving is by I. H. Jones.
The Little Minch, home to the blue men
The blue men of the Minch , also known as storm kelpies (Scottish Gaelic : na fir ghorma Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [nə fiɾʲ ˈɣɔɾɔmə] ), are mythological creatures inhabiting the stretch of water between the northern Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland, looking for sailors to drown and stricken boats to sink. They appear to be localised to the Minch and surrounding areas to the north and as far east as Wick, unknown in other parts of Scotland and without counterparts in the rest of the world.
Apart from their blue colour, the mythical creatures look much like humans, and are about the same size. They have the power to create storms, but when the weather is fine they float sleeping on or just below the surface of the water. The blue men swim with their torsos raised out of the sea, twisting and diving as
porpoises do. They are able to speak, and when a group approaches a ship its chief may shout two lines of poetry to the master of the vessel and challenge him to complete the verse. If the skipper fails in that task then the blue men will attempt to
capsize his ship. (
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