Speculative fiction
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Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, f
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Robert Heinlein c. 1953
Science fiction
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Science fiction is the genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic changes in technology, scientific knowledge, or biological systems. The elements common to science fiction hav
Speculative fiction
…fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, or other highly imaginative realms or beings. This catch-all genre includes, but is not limited to: fantasy, science fiction, social science fiction, science fantasy, superhero, paranormal and supernatural horror, alternate history, magical realism, slipstream, weird fiction…
Cover of Imagination, an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine (1952)
Alien invasion featured in the novel The War of the Worlds (1897) by H. G. Wells, illustrated by Henrique Alvim Corrêa in 1906
The August 1923 issue of Science and Invention — the "Scientific Fiction number" — was the first issue of a Gernsback-published magazine to have significant fiction content.
Amazing stories, Sept. 1928. Hugo Gernsback coined the term "Scientiction" in 1916.