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What is speculative fiction?

When people say "speculative fiction" they normally mean science fiction or fantasy. Speculative fiction is essentially an umbrella term that encompasses a large number of genres that speculate about worlds significantly different from our own. Some of your favorite authors and books are part of this genre, even if you don't know it yet. Below is an alphabetical list of some of the most noted speculative fiction authors around. Each novelist is accompanied by one of their best known works.

55 best science fiction & fantasy authors

• Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
• Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern
• Anne Rice: Vampire Chronicles
• Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
• Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Ayn Rand: Anthem
• Brian Jacques: Redwall
• C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
• Dan Simmons: Hyperion
• Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
• David Brin: Startide Rising
• Douglas Adams: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Frank Herbert: Dune
• Frederik Pohl: Gateway
• Fritz Leiber: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
• Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun
• George Orwell: 1984
• George R. R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire
• H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
• H. P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon
• Isaac Asimov: Foundation
• J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter
• J. R. R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings
• James Hilton: Lost Horizon
• Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars trilogy
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Slaughterhouse-Five
• L. Ron Hubbard: Battlefield Earth
• Larry Niven: Ringworld
• Lois McMaster Bujold: Vorkosigan Saga
• Marion Zimmer Bradley: Darkover
• Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park
• Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age
• Neil Gaiman: Stardust
• Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
• Philip José Farmer: Riverworld
• Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Piers Anthony: Xanth
• R. A. Salvatore: Demon Wars
• Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
• Robert A. Heinlein: Starship Troopers
• Robert Jordan: Wheel of Time
• Roger Zelazny: The Amber Chronicles
• Samuel R. Delany: The Einstein Intersection
• Stephen King: The Stand
• Stephen R. Donaldson: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
• Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• Tamora Pierce: Circle of Magic
• Terry Brooks: Shannara
• Terry Goodkind: The Sword of Truth
• Terry Pratchett: Discworld
• Tim Powers: Last Call
• Timothy Zahn: The Icarus Hunt
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Earthsea
• Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz