Concept

Speculative fiction

Overview

umbrella genre of fiction that departs from realism, comprising science fiction, horror, fantasy, alternative history, post-apocalyptic, gothic, superhero fiction etc.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Speculative fiction

• Robert A. Heinlein
• Detective fiction
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Related ideas

• Historiography
• Herodotus
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Ancient Corinth
• Frankenstein
• Shiji
• Fiction
• Literature
• Drama
• Realism (arts)
• Film
• Psychology
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Fantasy
• Pandemic
• Myth
• Robert A. Heinlein
• Narrative
• Utopia (book)
• Science fiction
• Sima Qian
• Roman mythology
• The Lord of the Rings
• Theseus

Opposing perspectives

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Social environment
• Euripides

Place in the tradition

Part of Romanticism.

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