The best thing you can say about a speculative world is that you look forward to revisiting it, and I am very intrigued to see where "Defiance" goes.
Society may willfully crumble for 12 hours in this speculative world, but so does DeMonaco's premise in a humdrum series of unlit-hallway explorations, cheap scares and violent showdowns.
In the speculative world they've created, it's 2039, 21.5 million people are being displaced annually due to climate change and, "the complex patterns representing the world were doomed to collapse".
As the title suggests, many works imagine fantastic or speculative worlds.
Earth Centre, Doncaster At the same meeting that the Millennium Commission turned down Zaha Hadid's Cardiff Bay Opera House on grounds of viability, it gave £41.6m to the highly speculative Earth Centre, a "world centre for sustainable development" in a former mining area of Yorkshire.
A great disconnect between the real economy and the speculative financial world has existed since the late 1990s, fed by mountains of liquidity sloshing around the world, expectations of and demands for oversized investment returns, and low volatility, all of which have encouraged risk taking.
4. Dune by Frank Herbert While the milieu here is speculative, real-world landscapes and cultures certainly inform it, the clans warring over the Melange narcotic spice on desert planet Arrakis analogous to the western powers who colonised north Africa, while the indigenous Fremen can be likened to the Senussi tribe of the same region.
The apocalypses are imagined, the consequences speculative, the new world orders thankfully without real world power.
Easy money and credit all across the globe have created the greatest speculative boom the world has ever seen, with well-connected hedge fund operators employing insane 250-to-1 250-to-1 250-to-1
The study, nearly 90 pages of statistics and analysis, offers glimpses into the speculative and secret world of missile proliferation by North Korea.
Like many housing markets across the world, speculative buying and inflated land values produced a lot of phantom growth in Cambodia in recent years.
