Kirkus Reviews described this novel in their review as " A near-future yarn that would have worked better as a piece of speculative nonfiction.

However, there remain elements of fascination with lost continents and lost civilizations, especially as popularized by 19th century science fiction and speculative fiction by authors such as Jules Verne, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and H. Rider Haggard and the more recent pseudoscientific nonfiction of authors such as Zecharia Sitchin and Graham Hancock.

During 1951 – 1952, Mies ' designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois ( 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop ), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series of speculative houses to be constructed in Melrose Park, Illinois.

The 6x86 and MII series did exactly this, but was more advanced ; it implemented superscalar speculative execution via register renaming, directly at the x86-semantic level.

In a sense, virtually all animated series allow characters and objects to perform in unrealistic ways, so they are almost all considered to fit within the broadest category of speculative fiction ( in the context of awards, criticism, marketing, etc.

There followed a series of speculative reports linking reelin's genetic variation and interactions to schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, autism and other highly complex dysfunctions.

Schopenhauer wrote: " In consequence of Kant's criticism of all speculative theology, almost all the philosophizers in Germany cast themselves back on to Spinoza, so that the whole series of unsuccessful attempts known by the name of post-Kantian philosophy is simply Spinozism tastelessly got up, veiled in all kinds of unintelligible language, and otherwise twisted and distorted.

* Shapeshifters in Love-A series of articles about shapeshifting characters in romance and speculative fiction.

In Frank Herbert's Dune series, set in speculative fiction setting, personal shields have been deployed that can stop objects with high kinetic energy.

After a series of speculative land transactions and a legislative scandal, inmates who were housed on the Waban constructed San Quentin which " opened in 1852 with 68 inmates.

** De Grey Technology Review controversy: In an article released in a 2006 issue of the magazine Technology Review ( part of a larger series ), it was written that " SENS De Grey's hypothesis is highly speculative.

In 1989, Green became ‘ Commander Rick ’, the writer and host of TVO ’ s speculative fiction news magazine series Prisoners of Gravity.

A speculative reconstruction of Utahraptor lifestyles and behavior was presented in the 1999 BBC television series Walking with Dinosaurs.

The series was influential on subsequent television speculative fiction, including Torchwood.

The inclusion of significant LGBT characters in modern speculative fiction television series has not been universal.

It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, " the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in developing London ", as Sir Nikolaus Pevsner observes.

The series is solidly based on what archaeologists have found-some of the tales are speculative reconstructions based on real burials.

Despite the entirely speculative nature of Hartmann's hypothesis, it is sometimes cited as scientific fact: for example, astronomer Carl Sagan presented it as such in his Cosmos television series in 1980.

* Dwarf Stars: 30 Stellar Short-Short Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poems from 2004, Edited by Deborah P. Kolodji, 2005 ( an anthology of scifaiku and other very short speculative fiction poems ; the first in an annual series published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association )

Earth's Children is a series of speculative alternative historical fiction novels written by Jean M. Auel set circa 30, 000 years before present.

The Book of the New Sun belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre of speculative fiction, named after the Dying Earth series by Jack Vance ( 1950 to 1984 ).

She has been the co-host of the Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar since 2000, a series which features luminaries and up-and-comers in speculative fiction.

Mulawin is a speculative fiction Television drama series about two races of winged humanoids.

The Southwest Unit, in California, planned and researched Spanish Grant, on a historical incident in which a series of " speculative land deals " took land from communities, and Land Grant, on the 1848 cessation of California to the United States and corrupt land deals that led up to it.

The parishioners wanted to replace the community house and open terrace with a speculative high-rise commercial structure that would re-capitalize the parish's depleted funds ; following a series of public hearing the Landmarks Preservation Commission turned down the plans for a fifty-nine story office building The case, St. Bartholomew's vs New York Landmarks Preservation Commission ( 1990 ), raised as a constitutional issue the question whether churches and religious buildings should be exempt from historic ordinances.

The speculative fiction writer, Ted Chiang, has a story, Story of Your Life, that contains visual depictions of Fermat's Principle along with a discussion of its teleological dimension.

Life insurers became concerned about individuals purchasing policies purely for speculative purposes.

CEQA guidance currently does not require lifecycle analysis of GHG emissions since the term is not well defined and too speculative, and the OPR removed the term “ Life Cycle ” from CEQA guidelines in 2010.

Life restoration of Lysorophus | Lysorophus tricarinatus showing speculative egg-coiling behavior.

David King's speculative development failed, and most of the houses were soon owned by the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which had financed the project.

After about 10 < sup >− 11 </ sup > seconds, the picture becomes less speculative, since particle energies drop to values that can be attained in particle physics experiments.

After this he worked primarily on speculative housing at Camden Town, Islington, and especially at Highbury Park, Stoke Newington ( now part of Islington ).

After the buildup there is a stock market crash which is often attributed to speculative behavior and Herd behavior on the part of investors.

After the fall of Y Bere, Dafydd's movements are speculative but he is recorded in May 1283 leading raids from the mountains supported to the bitter end by Goronwy ap Heilin, Hywel ap Rhys and his brother Rhys Wyndod.

After that, he attended the school of commerce in Leipzig, where he studied chemistry under Otto Linné Erdmann, who further developed his interest into a passion for questions of speculative chemistry.

His other works include Dinny and the Witches ( 1948, revised 1961 ), in which a jazz musician incurs the wrath of three Shakespearean witches by blowing a riff which stops time ; the book for the musical version of Clifford Odets ' Golden Boy ( 1964 ), which earned him yet another Tony nomination ; A Mass for the Dead ( 1968 ), an autobiographical family chronicle ; A Cry of Players ( 1968 ), a speculative account of the life of young William Shakespeare ( with Anne Bancroft starring for Gibson once again, this time as Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway ); Goodly Creatures ( 1980 ), about Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson ; and Monday After the Miracle ( 1982 ), a continuation of the Helen Keller story.

After writing for newspapers and magazines, Antanas Sileika published his first novel, Dinner at the End of the World ( 1994 ): a speculative story set in the aftermath of global warming.

" In comparing The New Weird to Bizarro fiction, Rose O ' keefe of Eraserhead Press claims that " People buy New Weird because they want cutting edge speculative fiction with a literary slant.

This is a highly speculative venture.

Result is a better prospect for a full payoff by bonds that once were regarded as highly speculative.

Especially is this true when, because the good effect is remote and speculative while the evil is certain and grave, the action is prohibited.

If an evil which is certain and extensive and immediate may rarely be compensated for by a problematic, speculative, future good, by the same token not every present, certain, and immediate good ( or lesser evil ) that may have to be done will be outweighed by a problematic, speculative, and future evil.

The origin of the latter name is speculative.

The Gigantopithecus hypothesis is generally considered entirely speculative.

Michael Coogan writes in regards to both Ecclesiastes and Job that “ Both take positions opposed to the mainstream of the wisdom tradition in the Bible, as exemplified in the book of Proverbs …” Job, along with Ecclesiastes is part of the dissenting or speculative group of wisdom literature within the Old Testament.

" Telgas " is not mentioned anywhere else, and it remains as speculative as Birka.

The 6x86 is superscalar and superpipelined and performs register renaming, speculative execution, out-of-order execution, and data dependency removal.

While it is clear that the Christmas tree originates in Renaissance and early modern Germany, there are a number of speculative theories as to its ultimate origin.

Beyond that, much discussion is speculative, and reliant on the broad generalizations of written sources.

Several speculative and yet untested hypotheses suggest that endogenous DMT is produced in the human brain and is involved in certain psychological and neurological states.

The Dharma is not a speculative philosophy, but is the Universal Law found through enlightenment and is preached precisely.

Some researchers have taken up speculative views, such as Jerzy Strzelczyk, who assumed that in the light of contemporary concepts and habits of marriage of that time ( when as a rule marriages were contracted with teenage girls ) is assumed that Dobrawa had passed her early youth, so, it's probable that she was in her late teens or twenties.

More than difference is the conflictuality of difference that must be distinguished from contradiction in Hegel to clearly distinguish deconstruction from speculative dialetics:

" As such, it is both part of the field of education and a field of applied philosophy, drawing from fields of metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and the philosophical approaches ( speculative, prescriptive, and / or analytic ) to address questions in and about pedagogy, education policy, and curriculum, as well as the process of learning, to name a few.

Its format is like that of modern travel dictionaries ; i. e., it may have been used by German speakers to communicate with Old Prussians, but the specific circumstances are only speculative.

The result of this financialisation of the commodities market is that the prices of the products respond increasingly to a purely speculative logic.