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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Private Rites
Daughter of Calamity
The Memo
Rakesfall
You're Safe Here
Moonbound
The Witchstone
Lady Eve's Last Con
Hey, Zoey
Moonstorm (Lancers, #1)
Lord of the Empty Isles
Sądny dzień
Escape Velocity
Lost Ark Dreaming
Loneliness & Company
Falling Down (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1)
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
Annie Bot
Our Missing Hearts
Twisted Ties (The Arrow Hart Academy #2)
In Any Lifetime
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Magical Midlife Awakening (Leveling Up, #9)
Still the Sun
Tiger Chair
People in Glass Houses (Ghost Hunters, #16)
Fair Market Value (The Body Shop, #1)
The Mountain in the Sea
Whalefall
A Magical Girl Retires
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 Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
2021 Queer SFF
227 books — 547 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
1,087 books — 841 voters

Snow Crash by Neal StephensonA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeJurassic Park by Michael CrichtonRed Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Classic Science Fiction - 1990-1999
324 books — 181 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
125 books — 265 voters

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeerAuthority by Jeff VanderMeerThe Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. CareyStarshine by G.S. JennsenWords of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
2014 Speculative Fiction
64 books — 190 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Station Eleven
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Brave New World
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Never Let Me Go
The Left Hand of Darkness
Dune (Dune, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
The Power
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

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