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speculative fiction

[ spek-yuh-luh-tiv fik-shuhn, -leytiv ]

noun

  1. a broad category of fiction encompassing any story that contains imaginative, futuristic, or supernatural elements. fantasy ( def 9 ), science fiction ( def ), alternate history ( def 1 ).


speculative fiction

noun

  1. a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of speculative fiction1

Coined in 1947 by Robert A. Heinlein ( def ) in his essay On the Writing of Speculative Fiction, in which he differentiates between science fiction stories that focus on fictional technologies and stories that focus on the societal impact of such technologies
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Example Sentences

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If that seems like a change from the feminist speculative fiction of her breakthrough, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Atwood has refused to be pigeonholed.

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Whitehead’s sixth novel is the culmination of a career spent both exploring race and indulging a lifelong love of speculative fiction.

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Granted, it’s fitting that Brooker’s fearmongering approach to speculative fiction should outdate itself; our phones, computers and video game consoles are likewise outdated by tech consumers’ hunger for shiny new toys, which the tech industry is too happy to feed.

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“’s the function of a galaxy?” the speculative fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin once asked.

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Images of the American military deployed in the streets against the American people as part of Trump regime’s coup are not the stuff of speculative fiction or the recent film "Civil War."

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