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The Uses of Genre and the Classification of Speculative Fiction

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Abstract

Optimally, a definition of speculative fiction will promote interpretation by suggesting affinities with similar explorations of human imagination and values. The looseness of the category provides opportunity for examination of varieties of classification and uses of genre.

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ROMA GILL (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1275bcf82ba854c366a9bb https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2013.0021

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