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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Speculative fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Speculative fiction is a term for a group of fiction defined by the concept of "What if?" As such, it includes science fiction, alternative history (fiction), horror and fantasy.
Writers such as Harlan Ellison (an outspoken advocate of the term) have deliberately rejected identification as a science fiction writer for precisely such reasons; they don't reject the science fiction genre (in which Ellison, for example, still participates) but they do reject pigeonholing their work.
The abbreviation "sf" (usually spelled in lowercase, but occasionally uppercase) is often used to indicate either speculative fiction or what is traditionally known as "science fiction".
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Speculative_fiction   (251 words)

  
 Links [SFRA - Science Fiction Research Association]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Scholar's Online Library is designed to provide rapid access to key resources in science fiction and fantasy, likely to be used by scholars at the onset of a project.
L.W. Currey, Inc. - Specializing in rare science fiction & modern first edition books.
PS Publishing - science fiction, fantasy and horror novels, novellas and short fiction collections from a multi-award winning U
www.ebbs.english.vt.edu /sfra/links.html   (600 words)

  
 THE CHRONICLES BOOKLOG: Find out what the Chronicles editors are reading, and purchase recommended books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Even in his early works he disdained the urban civilization that produced Sophocles and in his more recent effusions he combines the savagery of tribal chieftains with the sophisticated inhumanity of the New World Order.
It might be too much to call him a liar, since it is not clear to me that he has not passed into that Nietzschean fantasy world that lies beyond good and evil, right and wrong, truth and fiction.
Democracy, in its descent from an agrarian republic, reaches finally the last phase of degradation in which an increasingly rootless mob is manipulated by demagogues.
www.chroniclesmagazine.org /cgi-bin/booklog.cgi   (6766 words)

  
 Ansible Links
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)
The Fantastic in Art and Fiction (Cornell U) Visco: Visual Index of SF [Magazine] Cover Art
Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ)
news.ansible.co.uk /ansilink.html   (444 words)

  
 Ex Astris Scientia - Treknology Encyclopedia L-Z
The continuously occurring relaxation of excited electrons from a higher to a lower energy level becomes obvious in a characteristic glow (generic).
Plasma is not a fiction, but is actually utilized in several industrial production processes.
Common type of weapon in the 22nd century, obviously firing packages of plasma (TOS: "Balance of Terror", ENT).
www.ex-astris-scientia.org /treknology2.htm   (9154 words)

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