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What Is Speculative Literature?

Submitted by melvin on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 15:34
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An emerging crossroads of science and fantasy, of literature and mystery, of the surreal and the scientific. A new kind of writing for a new kind of world.

SF authors Nancy Kress and Ruhan Zhao at a recent R-SPEC meeting

Nancy Kress and Ruhan Zhao

Speculative literature is a mode of writing that starts where genre fiction leaves off. Sometimes called slipstream, sometimes postmodernism, speculative literature is a living intersection of genres that rises to the level of art through a focused concentration on literary craftsmanship and style. A place where Wells and Orwell, Kafka and Vonnegut, Rimbaud and Lem meet and compare notes on the realities within and the shape of things to come.


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nice photo

Submitted by Heihachi Mishima (not verified) on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 08:05.
nice photo
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