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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New Releases Tagged "Speculative Fiction"

Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)
Vigil
Detour (Detour, #1)
The Age of Calamities
George Falls Through Time
16 Forever
Arborescence
The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin
Tailored Realities
The Library of Fates
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
Culpability
The Poppy Fields
The Polymorph
The Dream Hotel
Vigil
Don't Be In Love
The People's Library
Our Missing Hearts
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
The Frozen People (Ali Dawson #1)
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
A Visit to the Husband Archive (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
On the Calculation of Volume III
Twisted Ties (The Arrow Hart Academy #2)
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-ChanUnder the Whispering Door by T.J. KluneWinter's Orbit by Everina MaxwellThe Jasmine Throne by Tasha SuriThe Unbroken by C.L. Clark
2021 Queer SFF
233 books — 527 voters
The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Wise Man's Fear by Patrick RothfussMistborn by Brandon SandersonThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
New Speculative Fiction Stars
1,150 books — 2,724 voters

1984 by George OrwellDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Philosophical Science Fiction
440 books — 413 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Contemporary Cult Fiction
493 books — 449 voters

The Handmaid's Tale
1984
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Station Eleven
Fahrenheit 451
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)
The Power
Sea of Tranquility
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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