The Speculative Society is a Scottish Enlightenment society dedicated to public speaking and literary composition, founded in 1764. It was mainly, but...

Look up speculative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Speculative may refer to: Speculative art (disambiguation) Speculative fiction, which includes...

Simpson, a friend from the Speculative Society, a frequent travel companion, and the author of The Art of Golf (1887). This trip was the basis of his first...

The Society for the Suppression of Speculative Stamps (S.S.S.S.) was a short-lived and ill-fated attempt by philatelists before 1900 to suppress the issue...

Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality...

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological...

Speculative evolution is a subgenre of science fiction and an artistic movement focused on hypothetical scenarios in the evolution of life, and a significant...

to The Speculative Society of Edinburgh University.[non-primary source needed] In 2019, the society was rebranded as the Devil's Advocate Society, and retained...

list of dystopian films. Dystopian societies appear in many speculative fiction works and are often found within the science fiction and fantasy genres...

Speculative design is a design practice concerned with future design proposals of a critical nature. The term was popularised by Anthony Dunne and Fiona...

Kirkwall, and was a student at Edinburgh University. He joined the Speculative Society in 1782. In 1785 Laing was admitted advocate, and from 1789 for...

Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon. History of the Speculative Society of Society of Edinburgh. Speculative Society of Edinburgh. 1845. p...

depicting speculative societies and relationships between characters, rather than realistic portrayals of speculative science or engineering. The term first...

societies that are different from real-life cultures. This freedom makes speculative fiction a useful means of examining sexual bias, by forcing the reader...

used in speculative fiction, a group of supernatural or otherwise extraordinary people will hide their existence from the mainstream society in their...

university". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 December 2017. "The history of the Speculative society, 1764-1904". T. and A. Constable. Retrieved 3 December 2017...

The role of women in speculative fiction has changed a great deal since the early to mid-20th century. There are several aspects to women's roles, including...

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other...

Edinburgh he was president of the Edinburgh University Conservative Association and the Speculative Society, and helped organise the election of Stafford Northcote...

"Test-retest-reliability and validity of the Kinesiology muscle test". Complement Ther Med. 9 (3): 141–145. doi:10.1054/ctim.2001.0455. PMID 11926427. Bernstein...

through their willingness to take on risk (not at the loss of profit). Speculative hedge funds that do fundamental analysis "are far more likely than other...

spirits, and of the Speculative Society. He corresponded with Horner, till the latter's death in 1817, and his letters form a major part of the Memoirs of...

with The Speculative Society performing a similar role. Members of the society would go on to be involved with Edinburgh's convivial societies, such...

society possessing highly desirable or perfect qualities. It is a common literary theme, especially in speculative fiction and science fiction. The word...

of the Speculative Society of Edinburgh By Speculative society of Edinburgh Bank of Scotland: a history, 1695-1995 By Richard Saville History of the Speculative...

While at BYU, Sanderson was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine published by the university, and served as its...

became a member of the Speculative Society, where he measured himself in debate with Sir Walter Scott, Lord Brougham, Francis Horner, the Marquess of Lansdowne...

and gender. However, speculative fiction (SF) and soft science fiction also offer the freedom to imagine alien or galactic societies different from real-life...

in Edinburgh as a tutor. He joined the Speculative Society in 1783. In 1787, he took the position as tutor to the Marquess of Tullibardine, eldest son...

of the Speculative Society at Edinburgh University, 1813–14, and author of Ned Allen, or the Past Age, 1849, was engaged in business in Dumfries. The family...