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 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
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
All Manner of Thing Shall Be (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A Guardian and a Thief
The Hearth Witch's Guide to Magic & Murder (The Hemlock Saga, #1)
The Princess Knight
The Names
Culpability
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)
On the Calculation of Volume I
For a Limited Time Only (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A Visit to the Husband Archive (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The Poppy Fields
The Dream Hotel
For Whom the Belle Tolls (Hell's Belles, #1)
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
All Manner of Thing Shall Be (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Our Missing Hearts
Don't Be In Love
The Frozen People (Ali Dawson #1)
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
883 books — 486 voters
1984 by George OrwellDracula by Bram StokerA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shining by Stephen  KingInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Quality Dark Fiction
2,508 books — 3,222 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
424 books — 395 voters

Framed & Hunted by Edward        WilliamsMean Spirited by Nick  RobertsThe Last Guest House by Caroline MitchellThe Standoff by Scott BladeWayward Spirits by Wendy Wang
Cult fction
359 books — 205 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
1,145 books — 2,717 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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