Speculative Fiction

Basic Information

Science fiction, fantasy and everything in between. On television, usually destined for cult status or a very short run. See What If for categories of things that are speculated on. The term was originally a "backronym" for the initials SF. Some writers felt that science fiction, or sci-fi, now equated to flying saucers and rubber monsters, and wanted to distinguish themselves with a new genre label. The desire to create separate categories is even greater when folks apply the sci-fi label to horror stories that contain blatantly supernatural elements (such as various immortals) but few if any science-based elements whatsoever.

Subgenres

• Science Fiction
  • Space Opera
  • Cyber Punk
    • Post Cyber Punk
    • Punk Punk
    • Steam Punk
  • Space Western
  • Planetary Romance
  • Wagon Train To The Stars
  • Inside A Computer System
• Fantasy
  • High Fantasy
  • Low Fantasy
  • Heroic Fantasy
  • Urban Fantasy
    • Friendly Neighborhood Vampires
• Mundane Fantastic
  • Fantastic Comedy
  • Magic Realism
• Horror
  • Body Horror
  • Cosmic Horror
  • Defanged Horrors
  • Hammer Horror
  • Survival Horror
• Alternate History
• Ontological Mystery
• Time Travel

See Also

• Speculative Fiction Tropes
• Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes

Sources

Bibliography

1. TV Tropes Wiki entry

2. Wikipedia article