The overarching genre of speculative fiction can be broken into two main categories: science fiction and fantasy. Each of them is subdivided into many smaller sub-genres. Consider what the words “speculative fiction” mean for our purposes. Speculative = conjectural, suppositional, theoretical, hypothetical, academic, abstract, risky, hazardous, unsafe. Fiction = novels, stories, creative writing, prose literature, […]

Speculative Fiction: the Liberation of Ideas #amwriting

All about the speculative genres…