A.O. Scott Correction: January 4, 2004, Sunday A brief essay in the Year in Ideas issue on Dec. 14, about movies that blur the line between real life and fiction, referred incorrectly to "Elephant," a Gus Van Sant film that depicts a shooting spree at a high school similar to Columbine near Littleton, Colo.
LGBT themes in speculative fiction refer to the incorporation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) themes into science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction and related genres.
Arguably the first in cinematic "climate fiction" (referred to in some circles with the cringey shorthand of "cli-fi") was 1973's Soylent Green, which opened with a frantic montage of cars and highways and lots of people and waste and suburbs and clearcuts and landfills and smog and, well, you get the picture.
(For reference: Canon, particularly used in fan fiction settings, refers generally to narrative, background or character material that can be found in the original source rather than in fan fiction or fan theories.
The concept of "backstory" in fiction often refers merely to character flavouring such as relationship and employment histories, but, in Happy Valley, enough crucial events have happened before the opening episode to fill another six parts.
Along with the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award is also considered one of the premier awards in science fiction, with Laura Miller of Salon terming it "science fiction's most prestigious award", and Justine Larbalestier, in The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (2002), referring to it and the Hugo Award as "the best known and most prestigious of the science fiction awards".
Justine Larbalestier, in The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (2002), referred to the awards as "the best known and most prestigious of the science fiction awards", and Jo Walton, writing for Tor.com, said it was "undoubtedly science fiction's premier award".
Some of the stuff on a fan fiction site referring to Brokeback Mountain is eye-wateringly bad and some of it is ok.
A writer of fantasy or science fiction might refer to an "alternate reality" (or parallel universe), and I would routinely change it to "alternative reality".
