Q&A: BEN COX AND SCOTT BARBOUR

摘要

What can you share with librarians who do not read sf to help them understand it, appreciate it, and work with readers? Barbour: There's a school of thought that science fiction is just one genre that falls under a broader category called speculative fiction. As Jason Boyd of Fictionphile offers, speculative fiction may be defined as "a type of fiction that encompasses genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, nature, or the present universe." Other genres under the speculative umbrella include alternate history, apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction, cyberpunk, dystopian, fantasy, horror fiction, magical realism, superhero fiction, hopepunk/ solarpunk/climate fiction, etc.