CRWR 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Extrapolation, Iceberg, Kim Stanley Robinson
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Research requires you to know what has been done to know what is new. Science & history: it"s based on hard facts. It is writing defined by the speculation about the unusual. Science fiction is always more about the present than it is about the future. It is one and the same an attempt to portray a possible future and an attempt to describe how our present feels. kim stanley robinson. Speculative fiction gives us a toolbox and a canvas that is literally unparalleled in other forms. It is the only mode of literature in which a story can happen absolutely anywhere. karen joy fowler. Example: magic is real and some people can control it. Fantasy high fantasy, portal fantasy, urban fantasy, supernatural horror, The martian), soft science fiction, apocalyptic, utopian, cli-fi (climate science fiction), biopunk (hacking biology), mundane science fiction (based in the not-too-far from now), cyberpunk, space opera (ex. Wars), alternate history, military science fiction, superhero fiction.
