Speculative literature—an umbrella category usually associated with the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres, but which we will approach more expansively—is literature of the what if. By expanding, often into disturbing and uncomfortable places, the conditions of the world as we know it in order to consider what might be, it invariably returns us to what is, and to the historical and contemporary challenges that prompt creative acts of speculation.
Speculative literature—an umbrella category usually associated with the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres, but which we will approach more expansively—is literature of the what if. By expanding, often into disturbing and uncomfortable places, the conditions of the world as we know it in order to consider what might be, it invariably returns us to what is, and to the historical and contemporary challenges that prompt creative acts of speculation.
