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 Wild Beneath
A Trade of Blood (Ana and Din Mysteries, #3)
Daggerbound (Swordheart, #2)
Time Travel for Beginners
Time to Burn
Portrait of a Witch Undone
The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass
The Salt King
Makeshift
Preaching to the Choir (Terrible Worlds: Transformations)
Every Version of You
The Good Parts
Fishbone Cinderella
Moss'd in Space (Moss'd in Space, #1)
Henry Tudor Must Die
The Price of Honey
Angel Down
Whalefall
The Good Parts
Vigil
Don't Be In Love
Time Travel for Beginners
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
Seek Immediate Shelter
The Poppy Fields
The Renovation
Our Missing Hearts
The Dream Hotel
We Were Forbidden
The Kaiju Preservation Society
The Woman in the Window by A.J. FinnI Can See It in Your Eyes by J.R. AbellaThe Wife Between Us by Greer HendricksSometimes I Lie by Alice FeeneyThe Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
2018 Mystery Thriller Horror
297 books — 339 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
3,887 books — 8,017 voters

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
383 books — 431 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
128 books — 277 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
1,243 books — 2,910 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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