Based on our reading and coursework, speculative fiction

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The question presents a prompt about speculative fiction and asks you to evaluate the given statements about it.
Option 1: 'gives authors and readers a tool for questioning the world in which they live.' This is a strong claim consistent with how speculative fiction operates: it uses imagined or altered realities to probe real-world issues, norms, and future possibilities, encouraging reflection and critique.
Option 2: 'is inherently less serious than literary fiction.' This is a bias-laden assertion. Speculative fiction can be deeply serious and award-worthy; its mode does not determine its level of seriousness or literary merit, and many scholars treat it as equally capable of depth as literary fiction.
Option 3: 'only works when it's set in a strange, exotic location.' This misstates the genre. Speculative fiction can be set in familiar or mundane locales, or in imagined futures or alternative presents; location alone does not define its scope or impact.
Option 4: 'can’t be used for social critique as it doesn’t describe the real world.' This is false. Speculative fiction frequently critiques real-world social, political, and ethical concerns by exaggerating, reimagining, or projecting consequences, thereby offering social critique even when events are fictional or speculative.
In sum, option 1 accurately captures a central function of speculative fiction, while options 2, 3, and 4 rest on misconceptions about the genre and its purposes.

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Based on our reading and coursework, speculative fiction

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