Walidah Imarisha

Is All Social Commentary Visionary Fiction?
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Is All Social Commentary Visionary Fiction?

BySaleena Karim

By Saleena Karim Science fiction has long been the genre of choice for social commentary. By breaking away from the everyday real world and presenting alternative realities, it offers a safe haven for making statements on controversial or otherwise sensitive topics. Unsurprisingly, as a speculative fiction type, sci-fi is also a favourite genre choice for…

Dean Koontz: That guy with “horror” tattooed on his forehead.
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Dean Koontz: That guy with “horror” tattooed on his forehead.

ByMargaret Duarte

Dean Koontz prefers to avoid genre labels. By his own admission, he writes “cross-genre novels in a mainstream style, with elements of comedy and social commentary and philosophical speculation.” That said, I hold firm to my conviction that much of Dean Koontz’s work contains elements of visionary fiction as detailed in the Wikipedia article written by our…