![]() ![]() The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines. History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. Read on if you dare.Canticle for Leibowitz Rendezvous with Rama Princess of Mars Altered Carbon Foundation Blindsight Accelerando Old Man's War Armor Cities in Flight A Brave New World Children of Dune Stranger in a Strange Land Dhalgren Enders Game Gateway A Fire Upon the Deep Neuromancer A Clockwork Orange Ringworld Diamond Age Lord of Light Hyperion Startide Rising Terminal World The Forever War Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hunger Games Left Hand of Darkness Man in the High Castle The Martian Chronicles The Player of Games The Shadow of the Torturer Sirens of Titan The Stars my Destination To Your Scattered Bodies GoĪ place to discuss published Speculative Fiction Here you'll find post-apocalyptic nightmare-scapes, ghost spaceships, and murderous time travelers. But each of these stories takes some speculative element and turns it up to a horrifying degree ( what if phones, but too much?). Science fiction is a big, messy genre with a lot of stories to tell. Of course, not all of these books involves robots or space or laser guns. So here are a few of the spookiest science fiction books to read if you're looking for a speculative scare. When original goth teen Mary Shelley first wrote Frankenstein, she kicked off a whole genre of mad scientists and technology gone way, way wrong (and also large corpse sons who just need a hug). Sci-fi and horror have always gone hand and hand. As far as I'm concerned, the scariest horror fiction out there involves weird wormholes, rogue A.I., and creepy aliens floating about in space (where no one can here you scream and also there's very little atmosphere and it's dark and just generally unpleasant). ![]() Look, you can keep your haunted houses and your clown-shaped murder demons.
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