** Orb Speculative Fiction, also known simply as Orb, an Australian speculative fiction magazine

** Raymond's Reviews of science fiction, published 1990 – 1992

** Crime fiction

** Mystery fiction

** Weird fiction

** Western fiction, the Western genre as featured in literature

** L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology ( d. 1986 )

** Michael Moorcock, English science fiction writer

** James Blish, American science fiction author ( died 1975 )

** Barbara Kingsolver, American fiction writer

** The National Indian Gaming Association has criticized Benedict's book, accusing it of being a work of fiction which attempts to undermine the tribe's status as an Indian nation.

** Huga Wells-Erb Heinsturbury, a science fiction writer whose unwieldy adopted name is derived from the names Hugo Gernsback, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs ( E. R. B ), Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon and Ray Bradbury.

** Red Phoenix — a speculative military fiction novel about a second war in Korea, as told from the differing points of view of various American servicemen.

** Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction ( died 1992 )

** Philip José Farmer, science fiction writer ( died 2009 )

** Julian May, science fiction author

** L. E. Modesitt, Jr., fantasy and science fiction writer

** Maurice Georges Dantec, science fiction author

** R. A. Salvatore, science fiction and fantasy author

** The Noble Slaves ( fiction )

** Eidolon ( magazine ), a speculative fiction magazine published by Eidolon Publications

** Popular culture, popular fiction, popular music.

** List of Canadian science fiction authors

** Firefly media franchise, a science fiction franchise stemming from the TV program created by Joss Whedon

** Homes artificials ( 1912 ), considered as the first science fiction novel in Catalan, published again 1986 Edicions Pleniluni, ISBN 84-85752-22-8.

Category: Speculative fiction

Speculative poetry, also known as fantastic poetry, ( of which weird or macabre poetry is a major subclassification ), is a poetic genre which deals thematically with subjects which are ' beyond reality ', whether via extrapolation as in science fiction or via weird and horrific themes as in horror fiction.

Merril later popularized this fiction in the United States through her edited anthology England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction ( Doubleday 1968 ), although an earlier anthology ( Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions 1967 ) has also come to be referred to as a key work of New Wave science fiction.

Category: Speculative fiction novels

Category: Speculative fiction novels

* Reginald Bretnor's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online

* For usage in literature, see Speculative fiction

Category: Speculative fiction novels

Category: Speculative fiction novels

* Guy Anthony De Marco, Speculative fiction author, member of SFWA and the Horror Writers Association

Speculative fiction novelist Vincent M. Wales, author of One Nation Under God and other novels, was also raised in Brockway.

Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts.

Speculative fiction as a category ranges from ancient works to both cutting edge, paradigm-changing and neotraditional works of the 21st century.

Speculative fiction can be recognized in works whose authors ' intentions or the social contexts of the versions of stories they portrayed is now known, since ancient Greek dramatists such as Euripides ( ca.

" Speculative fiction " is sometimes abbreviated " spec-fic ", " specfic ", " S-F ", " SF ", or " sf " but these last three abbreviations are ambiguous as they have long been used to refer to science fiction, which lies within this general range of literature, and in several other abbreviations.