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{{quote|''"Send a message back to Command Central on Earth and ask for their advice, which we will be able receive immediately even at this great distance, thanks to the ingenious manipulation of coherent radiation through a Bose-Einstein condensate and the bizarre influence of the Aspect effect, which enables us to impart identical properties to remotely separated photons," Captain Buzz told the feathered Vjorkog at the comms desk, "and tell them our life-pod is going to explode in eight seconds."'' ~~|'''Christopher Backeberg Kwazulu Natal''', 2006 Winner of the [http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest], Science Fiction category. }}~~

{{quote|''"Send a message back to Command Central on Earth and ask for their advice, which we will be able receive immediately even at this great distance, thanks to the ingenious manipulation of coherent radiation through a Bose-Einstein condensate and the bizarre influence of the Aspect effect, which enables us to impart identical properties to remotely separated photons," Captain Buzz told the feathered Vjorkog at the comms desk, "and tell them our life-pod is going to explode in eight seconds."''

|'''Christopher Backeberg Kwazulu Natal''', 2006 Winner of the [http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest], Science Fiction category. }}

Expospeak is [[Exposition]], often an [[Info Dump]], about the world itself.

'''Expospeak''' is [[Exposition]], often an [[Info Dump]], about the world itself.

[[Science Fiction]] is often set in a world not our own. This could be an actually alien world, Earth of a different time, or just the world we know with a secret magical subculture revealed. To get the differences across, characters will, in casual conversation, tell us about the world in which they live. It's as if you were driving somewhere with a friend, and suddenly said "Gee, travel sure got a lot easier since we started basing our cars on the internal combustion engine!" or "[[As You Know]], a red light means 'stop', while a green light means 'go'."

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Note that some recent series—especially ones which have had mainstream success—have tried to avoid '''Expospeak''', such as the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who]]''. What they pick up in the mainstream, they often lose on the fringes, as fans become angered and accuse the writers of sloppiness because they ''didn't'' explain everything. A different example of '''Expospeak''' would be [[Gunbuster]], where the '''Expospeak''' was limited to [[Omake]] segments on the tapes/laserdiscs/DVDs, which were completely separate from the main show.

A predilection for '''Expospeak''' hasn't prevented [[Police Procedural]] shows such as ''[[CSI]]'' from leaping to the top of the [[Ratings]] (and Dan Brown's books, laden with Expospeak about different subjects, to the top of the bestsellers list), lending credence to the oft-expressed idea that the reason speculative fiction only ''seems'' to be in decline as a genre is because its tropes have been adopted by the mainstream.

A predilection for '''Expospeak''' hasn't prevented [[Police Procedural]] shows such as ''[[CSI]]'' from leaping to the top of the [[Ratings]] (and [[Dan Brown]]'s books, laden with Expospeak about different subjects, to the top of the bestsellers list), lending credence to the oft-expressed idea that the reason speculative fiction only ''seems'' to be in decline as a genre is because its tropes have been adopted by the mainstream.

See Also: [[Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me]], [[Calling Your Attacks]]