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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Tailored Realities
The Library of Fates
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
The Merge
The Bookshop Below
As Many Souls as Stars
Lightbreakers
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Slow Gods
Turns of Fate (Isle of Wyrd, #1)
The Great Work
A Love Story from the End of the World: Stories
The King Must Die
All Manner of Thing Shall Be (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Outlaw Planet
Culpability
The Poppy Fields
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The Dream Hotel
Don't Be In Love
Our Missing Hearts
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
A Visit to the Husband Archive (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Monk and Robot (Monk & Robot, #1-2)
The Frozen People (Ali Dawson #1)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Twisted Ties (The Arrow Hart Academy #2)
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Angel Down
On the Calculation of Volume III
The Moon Dwellers by David EstesFire Country by David EstesRoute 666 by J.D. ToepferThe Woodlands by Lauren Nicolle TaylorA Different Alchemy by Chris Dietzel
Little Known Dystopias
260 books — 273 voters
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
126 books — 271 voters

Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerLegend by Marie LuBinti by Nnedi OkoraforThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinMoon Called by Patricia Briggs
Diversity in Fantasy and Science Fiction
1,145 books — 842 voters
Annihilation by Jeff VandermeerAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiNeverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,200 books — 1,094 voters

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 — 526 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDune by Frank Herbert1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Science Fiction
3,671 books — 7,005 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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