SPECULATIVE FICTION Flashcards
What is this?
- super genre
SPECULATIVE FICTION
What is this?
- speculative elements that are based on conjecture and do not exist in the real world.
SPECULATIVE FICTION
What is this?
- “what if” books
SPECULATIVE FICTION
What is this?
- CHANGES THE LAWS OF WHAT’S REAL OR POSSIBLE AND THEN SPECULATES ON THE OUTCOME.
SPECULATIVE FICTION
What is this?
- explores the possibility and responsibility
SPECULATIVE FICTION
What is this?
- bound to reality
FICTION
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
SCIENCE FICTION
What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- sci-fi mixed with FANTASY
- sci-fi stories inspired by MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, and FAIRYTALES.
EX.
1) Doctor Strange
2) Avatar; Way of Water
3) Wrinkle in Time
SCI-FI FANTASY
What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- stories about secret knowledge or hidden abilities including witchcraft, spiritualism, and psychic abilities.
EX.
1) Mortal Instruments
2) Sabrina
3) Twilight
SUPERNATURAL FICTION
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
SPACE OPERA FICTION
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.
EX.
1) Fantastic Beasts
2) Percy Jackson
3) Lucifer
URBAN FANTASY FICTION
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
EX.
1) Wall-e
2) The Good Place
3) Black Panther
UTOPIAN FICTION
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.
EX.
1) The Hunger Games
2) Tomorrow Land
3) The Maze Runner
DYSTOPIAN FICTION
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.
EX.
1) Don’t Look Up
2) World War Z
3) 2012
APOCALYPTIC FICTION
What SUBGENRE of SPECULATIVE FICTION is this?
- result of the apocalypse
EX.
1) The Day After Tomorrow
2) A Quiet Place
3) I am Legend
POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION
