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Speculative fiction 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) 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 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 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 supernatural , alternate history , and sexuality themes continue in works produced within the modern speculative fiction genre.
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway Her accolades include an Academy Award , a British Academy Film Award , a Golden Globe Award , and a Primetime Emmy Award . Her films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide, and she appeared on the Forbes Celebrity 100
Hathaway performed in several plays in high school. As a teenager, she was cast in the television series
Get Real (1999–2000) and made her breakthrough by playing the lead role in the
Disney comedy
The Princess Diaries (2001). After starring in a string of family films, including
Ella Enchanted (2004), Hathaway made a transition to mature roles with the 2005 drama
Brokeback Mountain . The comedy-drama
The Devil Wears Prada (2006), in which she played an assistant to a fashion magazine editor, was her biggest commercial success to that point. She played a recovering addict in the drama
Rachel Getting Married (2008), which earned her a nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Actress . (
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Aquaria is a
side-scrolling action-adventure game designed by
Alec Holowka and
Derek Yu , who
published the game in 2007 as an
independent game company Bit Blot. The game follows Naija, an aquatic
humanoid woman, as she explores the underwater world of Aquaria. Along her journey, she learns about the history of the world she inhabits as well as her own past. The
gameplay focuses on a combination of swimming, singing, and combat, through which Naija can interact with the world. Her songs can move items, affect plants and animals, and change her physical appearance into other forms that have different abilities, like firing projectiles at hostile creatures, or passing through barriers inaccessible to her in her natural form.
After more than two years of development, the game was released in late 2007 for Windows . A port of the game to Mac OS X was released in 2008 by Ambrosia Software , and an updated version of the game was released on the Steam service that same year. A Linux version of the game was released as part of the first Humble Indie Bundle collection in 2010, a version for the iPad was released in 2011, and an Android version debuted in 2013 alongside another Humble Bundle collection. In 2009, an album with the Aquaria soundtrack was released. It includes all of the music in the game, as well as a new nine-minute vocal track and a few remixes. (Full article...
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
”
Lionel Trilling (1905-1975), The Liberal Imagination (1950).
Illustration by Édouard Manet for a French translation by Stéphane Mallarmé of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". Part 4 of 4 full page plates (two smaller illustrations at beginning and end omitted). Illustration by Édouard Manet for a French translation by Stéphane Mallarmé of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven ". Part 4 of 4 full page plates.
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Selected article Peregrin Took (
Westron :
Razanur Tûk ), commonly known simply as
Pippin , is a fictional character from
J. R. R. Tolkien 's fantasy novel
The Lord of the Rings . He is closely tied with his friend and cousin,
Merry Brandybuck , and the two are together during most of the story. Pippin and Merry are introduced as a pair of young
hobbits of
the Shire who become ensnared in their friend
Frodo Baggins 's quest to destroy the
One Ring . Pippin joins the
Company of the Ring . He and Merry become separated from the rest of the group at the breaking of the Fellowship and spend much of
The Two Towers with their own storyline. Impetuous and curious, Pippin enlists as a soldier in the army of
Gondor and fights in the
Battle of the Morannon . With the other hobbits, he returns home, helps to lead
the Scouring of the Shire , and becomes
Thain , or hereditary leader of the land.
Commentators have noted that the actions of Merry and Pippin serve to throw light on the characters of the good and bad lords
Théoden of
Rohan and
Denethor of Gondor, while their simple humour acts as a foil for the
higher romance involving kings and the heroic
Aragorn . (
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