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speculative fiction
[ spek-yuh-luh-tiv fik-shuhn, -leytiv ]
noun
- a broad category of fiction encompassing any story that contains imaginative, futuristic, or supernatural elements. fantasy ( def 9 ), science fiction ( def ), alternate history ( def 1 ).
speculative fiction
noun
- a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements
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Word History and Origins
Origin of speculative fiction1
Coined in 1947 by Robert A. Heinlein ( def ) in his essay On the Writing of Speculative Fiction, in which he differentiates between science fiction stories that focus on fictional technologies and stories that focus on the societal impact of such technologies
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Word History and Origins
Origin of speculative fiction1
C20
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Example Sentences
We're creating the other in our own little piece of speculative fiction.
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