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Speculative fiction 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) 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 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 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 supernatural , alternate history , and sexuality themes continue in works produced within the modern speculative fiction genre.
Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as Brie Larson independent films and blockbusters . Her accolades include an Academy Award , a Golden Globe Award , and a Primetime Emmy Award . Time 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
At age six, Larson was the youngest student admitted to a training program at the
American Conservatory Theater , and she began her acting career in 1998 with a
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . She appeared as a regular in the sitcom
Raising Dad (2001–2002) and experimented with a music career, releasing the album
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Hoot (2006),
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and
21 Jump Street (2012), and appeared as a sardonic teenager in the television series
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The Man in the Moone divine and Anglican bishop Francis Godwin , describing a "voyage of utopian discovery". Long considered to be one of his early works, it is now generally thought to have been written in the late 1620s. It was first published posthumously in 1638 under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales. The work is notable for its role in what was called the "new astronomy", the branch of astronomy influenced especially by Nicolaus Copernicus . Although Copernicus is the only astronomer mentioned by name, the book also draws on the theories of Johannes Kepler and William Gilbert . Godwin's astronomical theories were greatly influenced by Galileo Galilei 's Sidereus Nuncius Somnium sive opus posthumum de astronomia lunari
The story is written as a first-person narrative from the perspective of Domingo Gonsales, the book's fictional author. In his opening address to the reader the equally fictional translator "E. M." promises "an essay of Fancy , where Invention is shewed with Judgment ". (Full article...
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It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as we dream, as we think, and as we cope with the world about us. But these worlds of fantasy that we form into the solid things around us are the source of our discontent. They inspire our search to find ourselves.
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Evan Harris Walker (1935-2006),
The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life (2000).
Film poster for the 1932 film The Mummy .
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Film poster for the 1932 film The Mummy Boris Karloff .
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Selected article Scoops was a weekly British
science fiction magazine published by
Pearson's in
tabloid format in 1934, edited by
Haydn Dimmock .
Scoops was launched as a boy's paper, and it was not until several issues had appeared that Dimmock discovered there was an adult audience for
science fiction . Circulation was poor, and Dimmock attempted to change the magazine's focus to more mature material. He reprinted
Arthur Conan Doyle 's
The Poison Belt , improved the cover art, and obtained fiction from British science fiction writers such as
John Russell Fearn and
Maurice Hugi , but to no avail. Pearson's cancelled the magazine because of poor sales; the twentieth issue, dated 23 June 1934, was the last. The failure of the magazine contributed to the belief that Britain could not support a science fiction magazine, and it was not until 1937, with
Tales of Wonder , that another attempt was made. (
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Dr. Robotnik seizes control in 3224 of the planet Mobius, the name of the former planet Earth .
A geological survey on Zeta Minor is almost annihilated by anti-matter creatures in 37166.
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