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Since then, many science fiction novels and films have used aspects of genetics as plot devices, often taking one of two routes: a genetic accident with disastrous consequences; or, the feasibility and desirability of a planned genetic alteration. The treatment of science in these stories has been uneven and often unrealistic.
In 2021, the story of her surgery was featured in the book Going to Trinidad: A Doctor, a Colorado Town and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads by Martin J. Smith. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] From 2009 onwards, Griggs has mostly written science fiction and speculative fiction .
Gender has been an important theme explored in speculative fiction.The genres that make up speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, supernatural fiction, horror, superhero fiction, science fantasy and related genres (utopian and dystopian fiction), have always offered the opportunity for writers to explore social conventions, including gender, gender roles, and beliefs about gender.
Speculative fiction in technology of reproduction may involve cloning and ectogenesis, i.e., artificial reproduction). [2] [3]The latter part of the 2000s decade has also seen an upswing of films and other fiction depicting emotional struggles of assisted reproductive technology in contemporary reality rather than being speculation.
A long list of advancements made in surgery and medicine have allowed transgender people to undergo gender confirmation surgery in ways far more successfully and safely executed than ever before.
A relatively common motif in speculative fiction is the existence of single-gender worlds or single-sex societies. These fictional societies have long been one of the primary ways to explore implications of gender and gender-differences in science fiction and fantasy. [ 1 ]
A whole shelf of trans women's literature. (Photo: Maya Deane) Across the country, bigoted legislators are trying to take away trans health care access, strip trans children from their loving ...
All women have evolved to be beautiful, in an illustration by Paul Merwart for a 1911 edition of Camille Flammarion's 1894 novel La Fin du Monde.. Evolution has been an important theme in fiction, including speculative evolution in science fiction, since the late 19th century, though it began before Charles Darwin's time, and reflects progressionist and Lamarckist views as well as Darwin's. [1]