Megatext

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Megatext is a term used by scholars of speculative fiction that describes the elaborate fictional background, tropes, images, and conventions that science fiction or fantasy narratives share.

Megatext is a term used by scholars of speculative fiction that describes the elaborate fictional background, tropes, images, and conventions that science fiction or fantasy narratives share. ==References== ==Sources== Introduction to The Norton Book of Science Fiction by Ursula Le Guin. 1993. Science Fiction: The New Critical Idiom by Adam Roberts. 2000.

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In his essay "The Evolving Megatext of Fantasy" [[Allen Stroud]] identifies the distinction between the author's specific fictional world mythos (macrotext or w

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