Unrealities

He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"They spoiled the music just the same, with their antics and unrealities." ❋ Unknown (2010)

A fine novel where the unrealities of the spy trade, if you like, are not overshadowed by the fantasy. ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

For serious writers of speculative fiction the prize has always been the belief that the unrealities of science fiction, fantasy and horror provide unique tools with which to dissect the realities of our world. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It must constantly breach plausibility by introducing new unrealities -- counterfactuals, hypotheticals, metaphysicals. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Often the result is that these little unrealities build into one big unreality, a good example of this being Peake's Gormenghast books, which are virtually relentless in their refusal of explication or excuse. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

To put this year's deficit in perspective, we thought of a few unrealities that carry a similar price tag: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Metaphysical narrative, which uses metaphysical unrealities. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

Future narrative, which uses hypothetical unrealities. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

Parallel narrative, which uses counterfactual unrealities. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

What I mean is: do writers use the same techniques we have identified within parallel/future narratives to validate these metaphysical unrealities, to prevent the collapse of suspension of disbelief? ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

Even the metaphysical unrealities do not prevent the reader from constructing a synthetic elsewhen in which these unrealities could have happened. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

The first thing that should become apparent if we accept the 3D-time model, where the mode of the narrative is a product of the inclusion of counterfactual, hypothetical or metaphysical unrealities, is that the inclusion of one type of unreality does not preclude the inclusion of one or both of the others. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

This clearly involves both hypothetical and counterfactual unrealities, rendering the narrative both parallel and future. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)