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Speculative fiction is anumbrella phrase encompassing the more fantasticalfictiongenres, specificallyscience fiction,fantasy,horror,supernatural fiction,superhero fiction,utopian and dystopian fiction,apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, andalternate history inliterature as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts.

It has been around since humans began to speak. The earliest forms of speculativefiction were likelymythological 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; malevolentsupernatural 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 fromancient works tocutting edge,paradigm-changing, and neotraditional works of the 21st century. It can be recognized in works whoseauthors' intentions or thesocial contexts of the versions of stories they portrayed is now known. For example,Ancient Greekdramatists such asEuripides, whose playMedea (play) seemed to have offendedAthenian audiences when he fictionally speculated that shamanessMedea killed her own children instead of their being killed by otherCorinthians after her departure. The playHippolytus, narratively introduced byAphrodite, is suspected to have displeased contemporary audiences of the day because it portrayedPhaedra as too lusty.

Inhistoriography, what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed "historical invention", "historical fiction," and other similar names. It is extensively noted in theliterary criticism of the works ofWilliam Shakespeare when he co-locatesAthenian DukeTheseus andAmazonian QueenHippolyta,English fairyPuck, andRoman godCupid all together in thefairyland of itsMerovingianGermanic sovereignOberon inA Midsummer Night's Dream. Inmythography it has been termed "mythopoesis" ormythopoeia, "fictional speculation", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works asJ. R. R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Rings. Suchsupernatural,alternate history, andsexuality themes continue in works produced within the modern speculative fiction genre.

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L. Sprague andCatherine Crook de Camp atNolacon II in 1988
Lyon Sprague de Camp (/ˌspreɪɡdəˈkæmp/; November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American author ofscience fiction,fantasy andnon-fiction literature. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, both novels and works of non-fiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction in the 1930s and 1940s. (Full article...)

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"The Man Trap" is the first episode of the Americanscience fiction television seriesStar Trek to be broadcast. It aired onNBC on September 8, 1966. Set in the 23rd century, the series follows the adventures of CaptainJames T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew aboard theStarfleet starshipUSSEnterprise. In this episode, the crew visit an outpost to conduct medical exams on the residents, only to be attacked by ashapeshifting alien creature seeking to extract salt from their bodies. "The Man Trap" was written byGeorge Clayton Johnson and directed byMarc Daniels.

The story—part of the originalStar Trek pitch by series creatorGene Roddenberry—was first assigned toLee Erwin. Johnson took on the writing duties after Roddenberry disliked his work on another plot proposal. Johnson's first draft was entitled "Damsel With aDulcimer", incorporating elements from hisTwilight Zone episode "The Four of Us Are Dying". Roddenberry, producerRobert H. Justman and story editorJohn D. F. Black all tweaked elements of the episode, including the title. "The Man Trap" was the sixth episode to be filmed but the first to be shot to schedule. Prop creatorWah Chang and costume designerWilliam Ware Theiss created the creature. (Full article...)

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“Plausibility, as the necessary brake and control element, has been our most essential guide.”

—Harold C. Deutsch (1904-1995), Introduction,What If? Strategic Alternatives of WWII (December 1997).
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Caterpillar from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Caterpillar fromAlice's Adventures in Wonderland
Credit: Artist: SirJohn Tenniel

SirJohn Tenniel's illustration of theCaterpillar forLewis Carroll's classic children's book,Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The illustration is noted for its ambiguous central figure, which can be viewed as having either a human male's face with pointed nose and protruding lower lip or as the head end of an actualcaterpillar, with the right three "true" legs visible. The small symbol in the lower left is composed of Tenniel's initials, which was how he signed most of his work for the book. The partially obscured word in the lower left-center is the last name of Edward Dalziel, theengraver of the piece.(POTD)

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Ira and Susan accepting the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Fanzine forLady Business

TheHugo Award for Best Fanzine is given each year fornon professionally editedmagazines, or "fanzines", related to science fiction or fantasy which has published four or more issues with at least one issue appearing in the previous calendar year. Awards were also once given out for professional magazines in theprofessional magazine category, and since 1984 have been awarded for semi-professional magazines in thesemiprozine category; several magazines that were finalist in or won the fanzine category have gone on to be finalists in or win the semiprozine category since it was established. TheHugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".

The award was first presented in 1955, and has been given annually since except for in 1958. A "fanzine" is defined for the award as a magazine that does not meet the Hugo award's criteria for a professional or semi-professional magazine. Specifically, it must meet less than two of the five Hugo criteria for consideration as a semiprozine: that the magazine had an average press run of at least one thousand copies per issue, paid its contributors and/or staff in other than copies of the publication, provided at least half the income of any one person, had at least fifteen percent of its total space occupied by advertising, and announced itself to be a semiprozine. This is the oldest long-running Hugo award for fan activity; in 1967 Hugo Awards were added specifically forfan writing andfan art. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years prior in which no awards were given. To date, Retro Hugo awards have been awarded for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954, and the fanzine category has been included each year. (Full article...)

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Subgenres:Alternate history · Apocalyptic · Biopunk · Comedy · Cyberpunk (derivatives) · Dying Earth · Gothic · Hard · Human society · Military · Mundane · Planetary romance · Recursive · Social · Soft · Space opera · Spy-fi · Steampunk · Sword and planet · Tech-noir · Western (Space)
History:Films · Golden Age · New Wave · Scientific romance
Related genres:Fantasy (Science fantasy) · Mystery · Horror · Slipstream · Speculative (Weird) · Superhero
Themes:Artificial intelligence · Extraterrestrials (First contact) · Floating city · Hyperspace · Lost World · Planets · Politics (Libertarian · Utopia/Dystopia · World government) · Religion (Christian · ideas) · Resizing · Sex (Feminist · gender · homosexuality · reproduction) · Simulated realities/Virtual worlds · Slipstream · Space warfare (weapons) · Stock characters · Superpowers · Timeline (Alternate future · Future history · Parallel universes · Time travel)
Subculture:Fandom:By nationality · Conventions (list) · Organizations —Studies:Awards · Definitions · Journals · New Wave
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Subgenres:Body · Comedy (list · zombie comedy) · Dark fantasy · Dark romanticism · Ero guro · Erotic · Ghost · Gothic · J-Horror · K-Horror · Lovecraftian · Monsters (Frankenstein · vampire · werewolf) · Occult detective · Psychological · Religious (film) · Sci-fi (film) · Slasher (film) · Splatter/Gore (film) · Supernatural · Survival · Weird menace · Weird West · Zombie apocalypse
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