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Speculative and Science

Fiction
 What is Speculative Fiction?
❖ Narrative fiction that contains elements that
aren’t based on lived reality.
❖ Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror,
Superhero, Dystopia/Utopia, Post/Apocalyptic,
Time Travel, Alternate History.
❖ What if….?
 Examples of Well-Known Authors in the
Western Canon
❖ J. R. R. Tolkien
❖ Aldous Huxley
❖ Mary Shelley
❖ Jules Verne
❖ H. G. Wells
❖ George Orwell
❖ Isaac Asimov
❖ Ray Bradbury
❖ Kurt Vonnegut
 Common Subgenres
❖ Fantasy
❖ Science Fiction
❖ Superheros
❖ Horror
❖ Utopian/ Dystopian Fiction
❖ Apocalyptic/ Post-Apocalyptic
 Science Fiction as the Literature of
Cognitive Estrangement
❖ Darko Suvin
❖ Cognitive Estrangement
❖ Connection between reality and imaginary
worlds
❖ Use of a novum
❖ Difference between SciFi and other fiction
 SciFi, Colonialism, and Empire
❖ Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s definitions
of empire
❖ Empire and Utopia
❖ Sci Fi as a tool of exploration and mediation
between constructions of empire,
modernization, technology, global capitalism,
and the pluralism that is found throughout
multiple nation-states.
Galactic Empires in Science Fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=edR5o0wXYdg&ab_channel=BookOdyssey
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd9L79koFkA

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