1. I'm always amazed at critics (ahem Darko Suvin cough cough) who argue science fiction is superior to fantasy. In truth, science fiction is a branch of fantasy.
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5. Once you had prose narratives that aspired to verisimilitude (Richardson, Austen, etc) then stories of goblins & witches became more than storytelling: they became a genre of their own: fantastika.
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6. Fantastika encompasses the broad range of non-realist or anti-realist storytelling rooted in romance: gothic fiction, horror, fairytales, detective novels, science fiction.
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8. Bourgeois mimetic fiction is inherently conservative in that it emphasizes stability of world & limits to change. Fantastika based on hope or fear that world is unstable.
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There is a literary term.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction …
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We use that term fairly commonly, those of us that talk about this regularly.
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There's an argument to split sci fi that takes a current trend or expectation in actual science(ex The Martian) and builds a story around where that idea is going v a fantasy story with lasers (ex Star Trek)
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I'd say it's less a response to Realism than to 19th century folklorists, and thus to Nationalism and Romanticism
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Yeah, no, that is Bicameral Mind sort of weird kook territory, that until Enlightenment or whatever "everbody believed in magic and thought stories were real"
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