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Realistic fiction sounds like a bit of an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But readers love characters who feel familiar, locations they know in real life, and situations that could happen but haven’t. Except when they have. Thirty-five years ago, author Tom Wolfe complained about having his fiction scooped by reality between serializing, then fully publishing, his…
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Not so long ago, the notion of civil war erupting in America might have seemed a fairly niche political nightmare. In 2017, Omar El Akkad’s book American War imagined a civil conflict over fossil fuels, but it was a speculative fiction, set in 2074. Yet by 2022, another novelist, Stephen Marche, was publishing The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future – and this was speculative non-fiction, about today.