speculative fiction
[ spek-yuh-luh-tiv fik-shuhn, -ley tiv ]
noun
a broad category of fiction encompassing any story that contains imaginative, futuristic, or supernatural elements.: See also fantasy (def. 9), science fiction, alternate history (def. 1).
Origin of speculative fiction
1Coined in 1947 by Robert A. Heinlein 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
Words Nearby speculative fiction
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How to use speculative fiction in a sentence
We're creating the other in our own little piece of speculative fiction.
British Dictionary definitions for speculative fiction
speculative fiction
noun
a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements
Origin of speculative fiction
1C20
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