I think you have a salient point here. As a backup example, I use the comic Watchmen -- in a world where masked adventurers are real, superhero comics went away (Action Comics #1 was mentioned in the character Hollis Mason's autobiography, so there was a sense that Watchmen took place in the "real world"), as, well, there they were in the flesh. Instead, pirate comics were the big thing, with the biggest titles being things like Tales of the Black Freighter and X-Ships.
So here's my question to you -- if the Colonies have no speculative fiction tradition (at least as we know it), what superceded it?
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Date: 2007-01-18 03:49 am (UTC)I think you have a salient point here. As a backup example, I use the comic Watchmen -- in a world where masked adventurers are real, superhero comics went away (Action Comics #1 was mentioned in the character Hollis Mason's autobiography, so there was a sense that Watchmen took place in the "real world"), as, well, there they were in the flesh. Instead, pirate comics were the big thing, with the biggest titles being things like Tales of the Black Freighter and X-Ships.
So here's my question to you -- if the Colonies have no speculative fiction tradition (at least as we know it), what superceded it?