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Speculative fiction is an

alternate history in literature
as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts.

It has been around since humans began to speak. The earliest forms of speculative

mythological tales told around the campfire. Speculative fiction deals with the "What if?" scenarios imagined by dreamers and thinkers worldwide. Journeys to other worlds through the vast reaches of distant space; magical quests to free worlds enslaved by terrible beings; malevolent supernatural
powers seeking to increase their spheres of influence across multiple dimensions and times; all of these fall into the realm of speculative fiction.

Speculative fiction as a category ranges from

Athenian audiences when he fictionally speculated that shamaness Medea killed her own children instead of their being killed by other Corinthians after her departure. The play Hippolytus, narratively introduced by Aphrodite, is suspected to have displeased contemporary audiences of the day because it portrayed Phaedra
as too lusty.

In

mythography it has been termed "mythopoesis" or mythopoeia, "fictional speculation", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Such supernatural, alternate history, and sexuality
themes continue in works produced within the modern speculative fiction genre.

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Poe in 1849

genre of science fiction
. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

Poe was born in
West Point, declared a firm wish to be a poet and writer, and parted ways with Allan. (Full article...)

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The Fifth Element is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, as well as co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, and Chris Tucker. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film's central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas (Willis), a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman (Jovovich) falls into his cab. To accomplish this, Dallas joins forces with her to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of Earth against the impending attack of a malevolent cosmic entity.

Besson started writing the story that was developed as The Fifth Element when he was 16 years old; he was 38 when the film opened in cinemas. Besson wanted to shoot the film in France, but suitable facilities could not be found; filming took place in

Jean-Paul Gaultier. (Full article...
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Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952), Interview, Locus (September 1997).[1]

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King Midas with his daughter, whom he has just turned into gold, from A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls by Nathaniel Hawthorne
King Midas with his daughter, whom he has just turned into gold, from A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Credit: Artist: Walter Crane; Restoration: Lise Broer

An illustration from an 1893 version of

Bacchus. However, he soon discovered that he was unable to even eat. Bacchus told him to wash in the river Pactolus, and the power flowed in the river, which was supposedly the reason for why the river was so rich in gold in later years. In Hawthorne's version, Midas' touch even turned his daughter to gold (pictured here). (POTD
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Arthur C. Clarke in 2005

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A
parasites
, scientific accidents, etc. The English word "zombie" was first recorded in 1819 in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of "zombi". Dictionaries trace the word's origin to African languages, relating to words connected to gods, ghosts and souls. One of the first books to expose Western culture to the concept of the voodoo zombie was W. B. Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929), the account of a narrator who encounters voodoo cults in Haiti and their resurrected thralls. (Full article...)

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Possible futures

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  • Around the year 18,000,000, a "half-plastic denizen" of the interior of a planet beyond Pluto exchanges his mind with the Great Race of Yith.

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