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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Time Travel for Beginners
Sunrise
Time to Burn
The Calamities (The Fiends)
Portrait of a Witch Undone
The Salt King
The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass
In What World
The Breakup
Makeshift
Preaching to the Choir (Terrible Worlds: Transformations)
The Good Parts
Moss'd in Space (Moss'd in Space, #1)
Henry Tudor Must Die
The Demon Star
The Price of Honey
Whalefall
Angel Down
The Good Parts
Vigil
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Don't Be In Love
All This & More
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
Time Travel for Beginners
The Renovation
Seek Immediate Shelter
The End of Everything
The Poppy Fields
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
1,248 books — 2,912 voters
Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra RowlandEarthflown by Frances  WrenA Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison SaftThe Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson BennettVoyage of the Damned by Frances   White
2024 Queer SFF
178 books — 226 voters

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneHarrow the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirCemetery Boys by Aiden ThomasThe Extraordinaries by T.J. KluneGhosters 5 by Diana Corbitt
2020 Queer Sci-Fi Fantasy
199 books — 432 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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