Speculative Fiction

Speculative fiction is a fiction genre speculating about worlds that are unlike the real world in various important ways. In these contexts, it generally overlaps one or more of the following: science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history. It is often used as an umbrella term for science fiction and fantasy considered as a single genre.

The term is used this way in academic and ideological criticism of these genres, as well as by some readers, writers, and
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Severance
Early Riser
Heartbreaker
The Black God's Drums
Temper
The Psychology of Time Travel
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel
Before She Sleeps
After the Lights Go Out
The People’s Republic of Everything
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut, #1)
Suicide Club
The Mere Wife
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #2)
Hullmetal Girls
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
How to Stop Time
Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven (Monstress, #3)
The Fire Queen (The Hundredth Queen, #2)
Happy Doomsday
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
Leap (Breakthrough, #2)
The Water Cure
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency #1)
Severance
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel
Impostors (Uglies, #5)
Obscura
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
Watchmen by Alan MooreSoon I Will Be Invincible by Austin GrossmanThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonBatman by Frank MillerHero by Perry Moore
Superhero Fiction
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City of Bones by Cassandra ClareAberrant by Ruth  SilverCity of Glass by Cassandra ClareCity of Ashes by Cassandra ClareA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Best Speculative Fiction
247 books — 240 voters


The Handmaid's Tale
1984
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Never Let Me Go
Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Station Eleven
The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle #6)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
American Gods

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“ The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly! ”
― Bob Bello, Sci-Fi Almanac, 2010

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“ The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river water struggle against each other at a river mouth, the old time and the new time clash and blend. ”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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