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This is a video in my Speculative Fiction Studies series, which examines and analyses key aspects of classic and contemporary works in the genres that fall under the broad rubric of speculative fiction. This includes fantasy, science fiction, horror, alternate history, weird, cyberpunk, utopian, post-apocalyptic, and superhero fiction, among other genres

This video focuses on Jorge Luis Borges' short philosophical story, The Secret Miracle. In it, author Jaromir Hladík is captured by the Nazis in their invasion of Czechoslovakia, and sentenced to death. Desiring to finish his play The Enemies, which he hopes will vindicate his existence, he prays to God to give him one more year to do so. As he is about to be executed, time stops for the external world, and he is able to continue his composition of the play from memory.

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