"The term “speculative fiction” has three historically located meanings: a subgenre of science fiction that deals with human rather than technological problems, a genre distinct from and opposite to science fiction in its exclusive focus on possible futures, and a super category for all genres that deliberately depart from imitating “consensus reality” of everyday experience..."
Works Cited
Oziewicz, Marek. "Speculative Fiction." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. March 29, 2017. Oxford University Press. Date of access 7 Apr. 2021, <https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-78>