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Python: Enter speculative fiction! Hey, it's not real literature, it's just for fun! A silly scripting language with ray guns and no semi-colons. Despite its sophistication and roots in medieval fiction and classical drama, critics view it as a relatively new genre, even though there's plenty of LISP, C and Haskell in there so shut up! Voltaire did too write about Saturn!

Nevertheless, it can be used for profound awesome. Google uses it, YouTube uses it, and those bastard magical realist bullshit artists are always nicking our toys. You don't even realize that your precious Captain BitTorrent, pirate of the high seas, was originally written in Python, and now brings you illegal copies of Doctor Who and Isaac Asimov, much to the chagrin and impotent rage of SFWA.

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