Laxi Hariharan explains why speculative fiction genre is on the rise in YA. She also tells us what it is, what it’s for and how you’ve probably read some without realising!
All through my teens I was too afraid to experiment. Maybe it’s a measure of the society where I grew up (in Mumbai), where compliance to the larger system was demanded as the route to success; success itself being defined in terms of material possessions. And failure frowned upon. Or perhaps it was just me. I never could let myself take the leap and just try things for fun, without worrying about the outcome.
It is my writing that made me realise that it was important to try new things without worrying about the results; for only then could I differentiate my “true” feelings, from the ones I’d been told I “should” have. Only then could I get more “real” in what I write. And it is this very “non-fear” of experimenting, the “non-judgment” of outcomes, which attracts me to speculative fiction (sometimes shortened to spec-fic).
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