Speculative Fiction. That’s a broad term, baby. It’s cavernous.

Let’s explore it, map it out just enough to be amazed.

Its scope is enormous. Spec-fic includes sci-fi elements but still falls outside the genre. Throw in your futuristic gadgets, new species and races, monsters, magical abilities, and you’re getting somewhere. Rife with peril and possibility, virtue and vulnerability, imagery and inspiration, spec-fic appeals to all kinds of people. Readers can—quite literally—get lost in another world.

Speculative fiction = imagination.

Enough inventiveness that readers shush the nay-sayers in their heads, focus on the fantastical elements, and believe. We’ll explore it all in this series, but today, we’re starting with one of my favorites.

FANTASY.

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