Speculative Fiction

Sub-Genres of Speculative Fiction

• Speculative Fiction > Alternate History
• Speculative Fiction > Alternate Reality
• Speculative Fiction > Apocalpyse
• Speculative Fiction > Dystopian
• Speculative Fiction > Fantasy
• Speculative Fiction > Horror
• Speculative Fiction > Near Future
• Speculative Fiction > Post Apocalypse
• Speculative Fiction > Science Fiction
• Speculative Fiction > Utopian

    The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

Year: 1962
Genre: Alternate History, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, WWII: Afterword

    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction. In this groundbreaking novel, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.

Year: 2004
Genre: Action, Historical, Near Future, Post Apocalypse, Speculative Fiction

    Gnomon by Nick Harkaway

In the world of Gnomon, citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.' Every action is seen, every word is recorded, and the System has access to its citizens' thoughts and memories--all in the name of providing the safest society in history. When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. The System doesn't make mistakes...

Year: 2017
Genre: Detective, Dystopian, Near Future, Speculative Fiction

    Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation science fiction thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years...and the very human people who will live their consequences.

Year: 2017
Genre: Post Apocalypse, Speculative Fiction, Utopian