SPECULATIVE FICTION Flashcards

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What is this?
- super genre

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SPECULATIVE FICTION

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What is this?
- speculative elements that are based on conjecture and do not exist in the real world.

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SPECULATIVE FICTION

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What is this?
- “what if” books

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SPECULATIVE FICTION

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What is this?
- CHANGES THE LAWS OF WHAT’S REAL OR POSSIBLE AND THEN SPECULATES ON THE OUTCOME.

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SPECULATIVE FICTION

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What is this?
- explores the possibility and responsibility

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SPECULATIVE FICTION

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What is this?
- bound to reality

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FICTION

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- stories with imagined technologies that don’t exist (time travel, aliens, robots)

EX.
1) The Pod Generation
2) Men In Black
3) Matrix

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SCIENCE FICTION

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- sci-fi mixed with FANTASY
- sci-fi stories inspired by MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, and FAIRYTALES.

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1) Doctor Strange
2) Avatar; Way of Water
3) Wrinkle in Time

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SCI-FI FANTASY

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- stories about secret knowledge or hidden abilities including witchcraft, spiritualism, and psychic abilities.

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1) Mortal Instruments
2) Sabrina
3) Twilight

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SUPERNATURAL FICTION

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- a play on the term “soap opera”, sci-fi stories that take place in outer space.

EX.
1) The Martian
2) Valerian
3) Interstellar

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SPACE OPERA FICTION

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- a genre of literature encompassing stories in which fantastical characters and concepts are placed in a real world urban life.

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1) Fantastic Beasts
2) Percy Jackson
3) Lucifer

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URBAN FANTASY FICTION

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- stories about civilizations the authors deem to be perfect, ideal societies.
- has beautiful the world is; perfect world

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1) Wall-e
2) The Good Place
3) Black Panther

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UTOPIAN FICTION

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- stories with about societies deemed problematic within the world of the novel, often satirizing government rules, poverty and oppression.

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1) The Hunger Games
2) Tomorrow Land
3) The Maze Runner

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DYSTOPIAN FICTION

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- stories that take place before and during a huge disaster that wipes out a significant portion of the population.

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1) Don’t Look Up
2) World War Z
3) 2012

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APOCALYPTIC FICTION

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- result of the apocalypse

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1) The Day After Tomorrow
2) A Quiet Place
3) I am Legend

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POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- stories about superheroes

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1) Superman
2) Ironman
3) Batman

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SUPERHERO FICTION

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What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- author gives alternate story to a real piece of history

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ALTERNATIVE HISTORY