Jamie Jauncey on 'Speculative Fiction' in today's Guardian Books Blog (sorry for brief repetition of this in another thread but thought it deserved a thread of its own.)
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/20...ot_expect.html
I first heard the phrase 'spec-fic' used by Margaret Atwood in an interview about The Handmaid's Tale - the book and that interview were a big influence.
