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Leaping the Chasm of Imagination: Verisimilitude, Historical Fiction, and Speculative Fiction
The borders of genre are famously porous. Devices that start in one genre will get adopted, subsumed, and then modified in another. Then the cycle starts again, with the “new” device trickling back to its original progenitor. This tendency is … Continue reading
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