Speculative Fiction

Speculative fiction is a broad category of fiction encompassing genres with certain elements that are nonexistent in terms of reality, recorded history, or nature and the present universe, covering various themes in the context of the supernatural, futuristic, and many other imaginative topics.

Under this umbrella category, the genres include, but are not limited to: science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history.

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Queen of Faces (Queen of Faces, #1)
For Human Use
The Found Object Society
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
Love Me Tomorrow
After the Fall
Nonesuch
The Forest on the Edge of Time
Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die
The Hospital at the End of the World
Pretenders to the Throne of God (The Tyrant Philosophers, #4)
The Daughter Who Remains (She Who Knows, #3)
The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky
Vigil
This House Will Feed
The Price of Honey
The Polymorph
Vigil
The Poppy Fields
The Dream Hotel
Our Missing Hearts
Don't Be In Love
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
On the Calculation of Volume III
Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)
The Frozen People (Ali Dawson #1)
The Kaiju Preservation Society
In the Blink of an Eye (Kat and Lock, #1)
The Mountain in the Sea
Babel by R.F. KuangSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelNettle & Bone by T. KingfisherLegends & Lattes by Travis BaldreeThe Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Hugo 2023 Eligible Novels
127 books — 275 voters

1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Dune by Frank Herbert
Literary Science Fiction
312 books — 243 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Smart Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction
533 books — 731 voters

American Gods by Neil GaimanNeverwhere by Neil GaimanPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
888 books — 491 voters
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirThe Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha ShannonThis Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarThe Hanged Man by K.D. EdwardsA Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
2019 Queer SFF
156 books — 372 voters

The Handmaid's Tale
1984
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
Station Eleven
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Brave New World
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Never Let Me Go
The Left Hand of Darkness
Dune (Dune, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Sea of Tranquility
The Power
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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