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Paranormal Romance, Contemporary Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Occult Detective Fiction, and Paranormal Fiction. It exploits or requires plot devices or themes that often contradict commonplace, materialist assumptions about the
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Baldwin, Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Calgary, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, "Ancient Science Fiction", Shattercolors Literary Review
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Canton, James; Cleary, Helen; Kramer, Ann; Laxby, Robin; Loxley, Diana; Ripley, Esther; Todd, Megan; Shaghar, Hila; Valente, Alex; et al. (Authors) (2016).
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audiences when he speculated that the titular shamaness
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Encounters: Philosophy of History After Postmodernism
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What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation
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Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life
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578:"Speculative fiction" is sometimes abbreviated "
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2866:In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
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2899:(First American ed.). New York:
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2399:, transcript Verlag, pp. 61–90,
2309:from the original on 10 February 2013
2179:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.78
1017:Internet Speculative Fiction Database
382:Internet Speculative Fiction Database
2817:from the original on 4 February 2013
2791:from the original on 7 December 2013
2467:from the original on 26 January 2013
2393:"Is the Fantastic Really Fantastic?"
2391:Golovacheva, Irina (27 March 2018),
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393:The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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2397:Is the Fantastic Really Fantastic?
2328:Vint, Sherryl (16 February 2021).
2070:After Man: A Zoology of the Future
2028:Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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61:List of alternate history fiction
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2712:. Livius.org. Archived from
2710:"Herodotus of Halicarnassus"
2486:Watts, Peter (Summer 2003).
2303:"A Speculative Fiction Blog"
2139:Biblical speculative fiction
1862:The Last Starship from Earth
721:, narratively introduced by
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2517:Journal of American Studies
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1902:For All Mankind (TV series)
470:in Slavic countries) is an
400:The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
387:List of Japanese SF writers
18:Science fiction and fantasy
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3467:Folklore mythology (based)
2515:Davies, Philip. "Review .
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1886:The Years of Rice and Salt
1856:The Man in the High Castle
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478:that encompasses all the
4409:Self-fulfilling prophecy
2165:Oziewicz, Marek (2017).
1598:Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5036:Stream of consciousness
4499:Suspension of disbelief
2528:Izenberg, Orin (2011).
1807:Neon Genesis Evangelion
1474:Masters of the Universe
1343:Masters of the Universe
703:seems to have offended
4577:Denouement/Catastrophe
4558:Rising action/Epitasis
2554:Domańska, Ewa (1998).
2463:. Greententacles.com.
1945:The Day After Tomorrow
1270:The Three-Body Problem
1246:Pacific Rim: The Black
1149:A Song of Ice and Fire
963:, The End of the Earth
914:
663:
4923:Utopian and dystopian
2210:"speculative fiction"
2167:"Speculative Fiction"
2050:Speculative evolution
1874:The Guns of the South
1592:The Castle of Otranto
1234:2001: A Space Odyssey
1125:The Lord of the Rings
912:
904:philosophy of science
815:The Lord of the Rings
661:
570:, and their hybrids.
4477:Narrative techniques
4257:Story within a story
4069:Supporting character
2195:on 18 October 2022.
1868:Inglourious Basterds
1155:Magic: The Gathering
1137:Dungeons and Dragons
5235:Speculative fiction
5182:Political narrative
5024:Unreliable narrator
4881:Speculative fiction
4589:Nonlinear narrative
4537:Three-act structure
4397:Deal with the Devil
3630:Television programs
3545:Legendary creatures
3407:Tolkien's influence
3029:Speculative fiction
2960:. Sf-foundation.org
2897:The Literature Book
2440:sf-encyclopedia.com
1825:The Handmaid's Tale
1747:The Hellbound Heart
1658:The Vampire Diaries
1640:Paranormal Activity
1175:interstellar travel
1143:The Legend of Zelda
1131:Conan the Barbarian
1066:
1033:young adult fiction
990:The Handmaid's Tale
746:William Shakespeare
524:utopia and dystopia
456:Speculative fiction
138:Legendary creatures
45:Speculative fiction
5160:Narrative paradigm
5155:Narrative identity
5085:Dominant narrative
5031:Multiple narrators
4315:Fictional location
4158:Dramatic structure
3555:Magician (fantasy)
3259:Parallel universes
2843:on 22 January 2013
2743:Craig A. Lockard,
2716:on 18 January 2013
2628:on 16 January 2013
2541:Leitch, Thomas M.
2109:Speculative poetry
1831:A Clockwork Orange
1610:Big Wolf on Campus
1561:Mexican Knife Duel
1090:mythical creatures
1064:
1029:paranormal romance
923:Robert A. Heinlein
915:
900:cultural movements
742:literary criticism
664:
372:Fictional universe
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5165:Narrative therapy
4599:television series
4544:Freytag's Pyramid
4387:Moral development
4290:Alternate history
4000:False protagonist
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3762:Fictional species
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3737:Zombie apocalypse
3585:
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3512:Sword and sorcery
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3161:Alternate history
2992:Project Gutenberg
2910:978-1-4654-2988-9
2881:978-0-385-53396-6
2708:Lendering, Jona.
2679:978-0-8161-1832-8
2436:"SFE: Fantastika"
2414:978-3-8394-4027-8
2334:. The MIT Press.
2250:978-1-921106-43-9
2188:978-0-19-020109-8
2095:
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1961:War of the Worlds
1926:nuclear holocaust
1846:Alternate history
1567:Sioux Ghost Dance
1039:Academic journals
824:alternate history
780:of the fictional
668:paradigm-changing
520:alternate history
516:superhero fiction
482:that depart from
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377:Fictional species
322:Fiction magazines
240:Fiction magazines
111:Fiction magazines
54:Alternate history
16:(Redirected from
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5145:Literary science
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4584:Linear narrative
4494:Stylistic device
4489:Show, don't tell
4452:Figure of speech
4242:Shaggy dog story
3985:Characterization
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