By Joshua A. Johnston Anyone who has studied “speculative fiction” – that stuff that goes beyond the normal world we live in – knows that it has categories galore. Fantasy. Science fiction. Steampunk. Horror. Time-travel romance. Science fantasy. Within genres, of course, are subgenres. Here I want to look at two broad categories of subgenre that exist within the genre we all know as science fiction. Now, even trying to define science fiction can get pretty complicated, but let’s start with the basics. In general, science fiction’s imaginative worlds are characterized by technology, planets, or alien races that are beyond …
