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Re:"They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story by Craiggybear on Saturday February 04, 2012 @06:31AM (#3550818)
Yes, that's why I refer to the kind of works you mention with the label "speculative fiction". They are really sci-fi but they have reached a level of social import and acceptance -- upon which they get labelled as "speculative fiction" rather than "sci-fi".
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Re:"They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story by Drbble on Saturday February 04, 2012 @08:24AM (#3550987)
"Speculative" is just used to bring fantasy and alternative history and other "what if the world worked under different rules? " material under the same umbrella as lasers and robots and starships. It is not a marker of quality level.
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Re:"They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story by Craiggybear on Saturday February 04, 2012 @01:34PM (#3551645)
Never said it was a marker of anything. There's good and bad speculative fiction like there's good and bad any other sort of fiction.
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