ATD: unanswered questions #2

[Natália Maranca]

> The salient point that spoke to me was that OBA was referring ex cathedra
> to the purposes of fiction as they apply to AtD,
>  and that one of those purposes is to examine the world
> as it would be were "thus-and-such" change(s) made.
> Isn't this part of the definition specifically of speculative (ie
> "science") fiction?
>

That's exactly how I interpret it, too.
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