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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.
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Walter Elias Disney American animation industry , he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons . As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards earned and nominations by an individual. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award , among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and have also been named as some of the greatest films ever by the American Film Institute .
Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed an early interest in drawing. He took art classes as a boy and took a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18. He moved to California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio (now
The Walt Disney Company ) with his brother
Roy . With
Ub Iwerks , he developed the character
Mickey Mouse in 1928, his first highly popular success; he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years. As the studio grew, he became more adventurous, introducing
synchronized sound , full-color three-strip
Technicolor ,
feature-length cartoons and technical developments in cameras. The results, seen in features such as
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937),
Pinocchio ,
Fantasia (both 1940),
Dumbo (1941), and
Bambi (1942), furthered the development of animated film. New animated and
live-action films followed after World War II, including the critically successful
Cinderella (1950),
Sleeping Beauty (1959) and
Mary Poppins (1964), the last of which received five Academy Awards. (
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 American
science fiction action film directed by
James Cameron , who co-wrote the script with
William Wisher . Starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger ,
Linda Hamilton and
Robert Patrick , it is the sequel to
The Terminator (1984) and is the second installment in the
Terminator franchise. In the film, the malevolent
artificial intelligence Skynet sends a
Terminator —a highly advanced killing machine—back in time to 1995 to kill the future leader of the human resistance
John Connor when he is a child. The resistance sends back a less advanced, reprogrammed
Terminator to protect Connor and ensure the future of humanity.
The Terminator was considered a significant success, enhancing Schwarzenegger's and Cameron's careers, but work on a sequel stalled because of animosity between the pair and Hemdale Film Corporation , which partially owned the film's rights. In 1990, Schwarzenegger and Cameron persuaded Carolco Pictures to purchase the rights from The Terminator producer Gale Anne Hurd and Hemdale, which was financially struggling. A release date was set for the following year, leaving Cameron and Wisher seven weeks to write the script. Principal photography lasted from October 1990 to March 1991, taking place in and around Los Angeles on an estimated $94–102 million budget, making it the most expensive film made at the time . The advanced visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), which include the first use of a computer-generated main character in a blockbuster film, resulted in a schedule overrun. Theatrical prints were not delivered to theaters until the night before the picture's release on July 3, 1991. (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).
Three Little Pigs, by Leonard Leslie Brooke Illustration for a 1904 adaptation of the Three Little Pigs
Possible events in the future as suggested by science fiction:
The Committee of Public Safety seizes power in Nouveau Paris and takes control of the government in 4007. In the year 5,000,000,023, Humans have moved to a new planet in the galaxy M87.
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