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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The Unicorn Hunters
The Children
Songs of the Dead (The Strata Wars, #1)
The Secret World of Briar Rose
Romantic Hero
Sublimation
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous (Everyday Magic, #1)
Obstetrix
Muñeca
Headlights
The Sixth Nik
The Jellyfish Problem
Green City Wars
We Hexed the Moon
The Price of Honey
Angel Down
The Girl in the Lake (Dept of Unexplained Phenomenon, #1)
Don't Be In Love
Whalefall
Vigil
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
The Poppy Fields
Our Missing Hearts
On the Calculation of Volume IV
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
The Dream Hotel
On the Calculation of Volume III
Obstetrix
The Prediction (The Jolvix Episodes #1)
Legends & Lattes by Travis BaldreeThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky ChambersA Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
CozySFF
377 books — 428 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Tales of Ian and Bry-Ankh The Great Silver Dragon by Jim DilyardLegend by Marie LuBinti by Nnedi OkoraforThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Diversity in Fantasy and Science Fiction
1,162 books — 917 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 — 369 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
507 books — 493 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)
Sea of Tranquility
The Power
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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True. And there are an infinite number of universes, of course, in which we don't exist at all - that is, no creatures similar to us exist at all. In which the human race doesn't exist at all. There are an infinite number of universes, for instance, in which flowers are the predominant form of life -or in which no form of life has ever developed or will develop. ...more
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