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Our society is a melting pot of cultures, traditions, practices and many other things, but every individual in this melting pot has one thing in common. They are all curious. They want the unexplained to be explained, and the unknown to be known. This is where speculative fiction enters our life. In an attempt to write about the unknown and unexplained authors weave pieces of what they know into stories, creating whole new worlds. Speculative fiction can be a criticism of society as well. Society is constantly changing, we seek new ideas, habits and trends among other things, speculative fiction brings forth an array of new ideas which people tend to incorporate into our own society for different purposes. Speculative fiction creates "what ifs," which are further explored by our society. Society and Speculative Fiction go hand in hand; they are often inspire each other.

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Speculative Fiction is created to explain the unknown. The story, We Can Remember It For Wholesale by Dick is an attempt at explaining the unknown consequences of time traveling. Dick wrote the story to explain a possible consequence of time traveling; he tried to explain the unknown. The story was created to explain what cannot be explained with science or anything other real-world phenomena. We don't know how time traveling will affect the present and how past actions affect today so Dick attempted at doing that by using his imagination. He took a phenomenon from our real world known as the butterfly effect and showed maybe that can affect the time line as well when you travel back into the past. He represented it in an ironic way as the man stepped on a butterfly which changed the present.

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Auge's commentary shows how science fiction influences our society and how society influences our society. Auge mentioned how the post-war era contained many science fiction novels, inspired by the different things seen during war times. The speculative fiction novels are inspired by current society. They help each other grow. Speculative fiction is an extension of society, in this case. It was probably stories about better weapons or a different post-war world. We read 1984, a novel by George Orwell, which revolves around a dystopia. The idea of conformity and loss of liberty are the themes of the book. Orwell wrote the book in the 1950s; this was post World War 2 when everyone wanted things to go back to normal and many laws were overridden by governments in the time of war for protection. Orwell wrote 1984 after being inspired by the course of events which were taking place right in front of him. People around the world were giving up their liberty to the government in the name of war. 1984 is society where people are seeking normalcy similar to the real word after World War 2 and were obeying the governments will without opposition. Orwell was criticizing the people of the world for obeying the government without opposition and giving up their own personal rights, he was showing the world an exaggerated end result of their actions. The book was inspired by the society around him.

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Why our world needs science fiction: Etienne Augé at TEDxErasmusUniversity

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This is a purely animated picture. It was one of the stock images which showed up when I searched Science Fiction in the images tab of Padlet. This picture shows the unknown, it's a reflection of today's society and steers towards a future of innovation. We create Speculative Fiction when we are inspired by a real-world element which can be made better. The person in the image is wearing a space suit, similar to that one worn by astronauts today in space but it's better. The space suit also seems to have a jet pack propulsion system on the back which has yet to be effectively made. The concept of war continuous onto this creation from imaginations as war is an important aspect of our lives and society. Speculative Fiction is created to make a real world inspired concept better with the help of imagination.

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The tweet mentions "anti-gravity fields", something we have to figure out how to do. Ender's Game has anti-gravity fields and other manipulation of gravity present in the story. Card explains this portion of his story by saying that the humans learned how to manipulate gravity from the buggers. This is an example of how society influences speculative fiction. There were probably others back at the time at which Ender's Game was written who had wished for anti-gravity fields. Card's novel was influenced by society's curiosity and craving for new phenomena. Card used society's curiosity and his component of speculative beings, the buggers, to create his novel, Ender's Game.

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Speculative fiction and our society work hand in hand when in terms of influencing each other. Speculative fiction explains the explainable and society embraces the innovative ideas which speculative fiction brings forth. They question each other and create the answers hand in hand.

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1984: George Orwell. Spark Publishing, 2014. Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. A Cove like Mini Planet. www.thewallpapers.org/photo/50652/Fantasy-Sci-Fi-056.jpg. Nainen, Marjorie. “Or Hovercraft Tech, or Antigravity Fields. (Hah. I Wish. Flying Cars and Rosie the Robot!).” Twitter, Twitter, 8 Mar...