Quote - *NB: I see the source for "futuristic." In the context, I should have said "speculative."

*Read (your own), before you rant.

Kalon:  you quote one definition of "Science fiction" with approval and then blithely assure us that "the War of the Worlds" is "science fiction", too, even though it fails to satisfy the definition you have just so airily endorsed.   Nothing in "The War of the Worlds" has anything to do with science, beyond the final scene, which I shan't reveal, because there may be people viewing this forum who don't know the ending, just as i am pretty confident that a certain individual never got past page four of "Gulliver's Travels".

God I love these PMS moments. I have a PhD in Eighteenth Century English literature, with a focus on the novel, and I have taught Gullivers Travels in addition to reading it a dozen times or so in my life. And if "I don't know where you got 'futuristic'" is your idea of a rant, you must be fun when you are upset. I didn't go back and read my first post because if I had, I'd have lost my reply window. When I did go back, I conceded the point immediately.

Sheesh. Why bother?
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