week 7 ✿

What is the difference in emphasis between the terms science fiction and speculative fiction? Which is The Man in the High Castle?

Science fiction is a story that didn't happen but the writer pretend it will happen or already happened. It tells a story that is possible to happen. It usually avoids events that will make readers doubt about the story or explains those events with a plausible reason. Science fiction is all about imagination, the writer came up with an idea of what the future would be and write a story on it. The idea must be plausible in order to get the readers’ interests. Everything in a science fiction will be explained with a plausible scientific reason.

Speculative fiction can be a collective term to describe works of science fiction and also addresses works that are not science fiction. Speculative fiction includes everything with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements, including science fiction and fantasy.

The Man in the High Castle is science fiction; it changed the history and made up the story based on imagination. It started the story in 1933 when the president of United States was assassinated and continued the story by creating new characters and altered the history. And it was expected that the story already happened and it came up some ideas to make it possible to been happened.


Reference:

Brown,E.(2001).Introduction.In Dick, P.K., The Man in the High Castle (p.v -xii). London:Penguin