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
Alternate history
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Alternate history is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events happen differently than they did in reality.
Speculative fiction
…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, utopia, dystopia, and apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, the genre presents…
A painting by Jakub Różalski depicts an alternative history of the 1920s in Scythe, in which rural peasants must contend with giant mechanical walking tanks.
Title page of the first Spanish-language translation of Joanot Martorell's Tirant lo Blanch (originally in Catalan)