Unbound Boxes
Limping Gods:
The Guild Master’s General
Unbound Boxes
Limping Gods:
Cheryl Moore
Time Line: 3987, IndiaUnbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories. Issue # 9: The Guild Master’s General
February 20, 2011 by cherylmooreMy thoughts: The key issue is that the General is after our main character, Alexand Merek, and steals blueprints...
Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories. Issue # 9: The Guild Master’s General
February 20, 2011 by cherylmoore
The author has successfully pulled me in...I'm interested and wanting to know more. Already I hate the General and am worried about Alexand's being hurt... Will she live? Or...will we be left hanging with this story...will the next story take up where this one ends? I'm feeling a sense of anxiety...I'm one of those individuals who seeks closure...
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Cheryl lists her work as fantasy, feminist. science fiction and speculative fiction. I'm now quite sure I know about the last, so...out to Wikipedia (If you wish to read about this too, please click the link since I have not attempted to verify highlighted link uses here...the following helped me understand the term.
Following its coining, speculative fiction as a category sweeps from ancient works to both cutting edge, paradigm-changing and neotraditional new works of the 21st century which cite their stories and images from ancient to future times.... the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Such supernatural, alternate history and sexuality themes continue in works produced within the modern speculative fiction genre...
In its English language usage in arts and literature since 20th century, "speculative fiction" as a genre term is often attributed to Robert A. Heinlein. In his first known use of the term, in editorial material at the front of the 2/8/1947 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, Heinlein used it specifically as a synonym for "science fiction"; in a later piece, he explicitly stated that his use of the term did not include fantasy...
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database contains a broad list of different subtypes. In the 2000s, the term has come into wider use as a convenient collective term for a set of genres. Academic journals which publish essays on speculative fiction include Extrapolation, and Foundation.
Distinguishing speculative fiction from science fiction
"Speculative fiction" is sometimes abbreviated "spec-fic", "specfic" "S-F", "SF", or "sf"[24] but these last three abbreviations are ambiguous as they have long been used to refer to science fiction, which lies within this general range of literature....
The term has been used to express dissatisfaction with what some people consider the limitations of science fiction, or otherwise to designate fiction that falls under readily stereotypical genres so that it can be pigeonholed within such categorical limits as "fantasy" or "mystery".For example, in Harlan Ellison's writing, the term may signal a wish not to be pigeonholed as a science fiction writer, and a desire to break out of science fiction's genre conventions in a literary and modernist direction; or to escape the prejudice with which science fiction is often met by mainstream critics.
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Cheryl, you've chosen to consider your work speculative fiction...obviously setting the stories far into the future must be part of that. I note that this is sometimes used to "signal a wish not to be pigeonholed," could you tell us (1) did you decide to write "speculative fiction" or did you start writing and later find that your work could be considered that genre...and (2) what caused you to conceive of your world of speculative fiction as opposed to, say, the mystery/suspense genre?
