A day after my post on Speculative Fiction vs. Science Fiction, Catherynne M. Valente wrote a post on the same topic and she has a lot of good and interesting things to say about this. One thing I really didn’t talk about in my post is what I see as a taxonomy problem. Personally, I…
I don’t like the term “speculative fiction”. In fact, I hate it, and there are several reasons for this: It sounds pretentious. It seems like a way of avoiding the words “science fiction” or “fantasy”. It seems to be used as a way of collecting a variety of imaginative genres together in one taxonomical bucket.…