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		Drbble on Feb 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sc... "Speculative" is just used to bring fantasy and alternative history and other "what if the world worked under different rules? " material under the same umbrella as lasers and robots and starships. It is not a marker of quality level.

Craiggybear on Feb 4, 2012 [–]

Never said it was a marker of anything. There's good and bad speculative fiction like there's good and bad any other sort of fiction.

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