speculative fiction

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

noun
  1. 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

1
Coined 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

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speculative fiction

noun
  1. a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements

Origin of speculative fiction

1
C20

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