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Speculative fiction is an umbrella phrase encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres , specifically science fiction , fantasy , horror , supernatural fiction , superhero fiction , utopian and dystopian fiction , apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction , and 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 fiction were likely 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 ancient works to cutting edge , paradigm -changing, and neotraditional works of the 21st century. It can be recognized in works whose authors' intentions or the social contexts of the versions of stories they portrayed is now known. For example, Ancient Greek dramatists such as Euripides , whose play Medea (play) seemed to have offended 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 historiography , what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed "historical invention", "historical fiction ," and other similar names. It is extensively noted in the literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta , English fairy Puck , and Roman god Cupid all together in the fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream . 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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Chrono Trigger (Japanese : クロノ・トリガー , Hepburn : Kurono Torigā ) is a 1995
role-playing video game developed and published by
Square . It was originally released for the
Super Nintendo Entertainment System as the first entry in the
Chrono series. The game's
development team included three
designers that Square dubbed the "Dream Team":
Hironobu Sakaguchi , creator of Square's
Final Fantasy series;
Yuji Horii , creator of
Enix 's
Dragon Quest series; and
Akira Toriyama , character designer of
Dragon Quest and author of the
Dragon Ball manga series. In addition,
Takashi Tokita co-directed the game and co-wrote the scenario,
Kazuhiko Aoki produced the game, while
Masato Kato wrote most of the story. The game's plot follows a
group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe.
Chrono Trigger was a critical and commercial success upon release, receiving multiple accolades from gaming publications , and is considered one of fourth-generation console gaming 's most significant titles and among the greatest video games ever made . Nintendo Power magazine described aspects of the game as revolutionary, including its multiple endings , plot-related side-quests focusing on character development , unique battle system, and detailed graphics . The game's soundtrack , scored by Yasunori Mitsuda with assistance from veteran Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu , has been hailed as one of the best video game soundtracks of all time . Chrono Trigger was the second best-selling game of 1995 in Japan, and the various incarnations of the game have shipped more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. (Full article... )
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The "hard" science-fiction writers are the ones who try to write specific stories about all that technology may do for us. More and more, these writers felt an opaque wall across the future. Once, they could put such fantasies millions of years in the future. Now they saw that their most diligent extrapolations resulted in the unknowable...soon.
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—Vernor Vinge (b.1944), "The Coming Technological Singularity" (1993).
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Possible events in the future as suggested by science fiction:
Jenny , the daughter of the Doctor , is born on July 24, 6012 on the planet Messaline.
In 802,701, The Time Traveller encounters a garden world and sees Humanity has divided into the meek Eloi on the surface and the subdwelling, cannibalistic Morlocks.
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