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 Everlasting
A Guardian and a Thief
The Hearth Witch's Guide to Magic & Murder (The Hemlock Saga, #1)
The Princess Knight
The Isle in the Silver Sea
The Women of Wild Hill
The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, #3)
Queen Demon (The Rising World, #2)
Local Heavens
All That We See or Seem (Julia Z, #1)
Herculine
Simultaneous
What We Can Know
Saltcrop
Spread Me
The Names
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Culpability
A Guardian and a Thief
On the Calculation of Volume I
The Poppy Fields
The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, #3)
The Dream Hotel
For Whom the Belle Tolls (Hell's Belles, #1)
Lightbreakers
Our Missing Hearts
The Frozen People (Ali Dawson #1)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Don't Be In Love
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
The Moon Dwellers by David EstesFire Country by David EstesRoute 666 by J.D. ToepferThe Woodlands by Lauren Nicolle TaylorA Different Alchemy by Chris Dietzel
Little Known Dystopias
260 books — 277 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
152 books — 367 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
425 books — 406 voters
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirThe Hourglass Throne by K.D. EdwardsA Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra RowlandThe Oleander Sword by Tasha SuriOcean's Echo by Everina Maxwell
2022 Queer SFF
221 books — 414 voters

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 — 484 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
3,645 books — 6,904 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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