L5 | SPECULATIVE FICTION

• SPECULATIVE FICTION

  • Includes futuristic or imaginative elements, questioning reality or human nature.
  • Takes place in imaginary worlds
  • "What if" questions
• SUBGENRES OF SPECULATIVE FICTION

  1. Sci-fi
  2. Fantasy
  3. Apocalyptic
  4. Post Apocalyptic
  5. Utopian
  6. Dystopian
  7. Alternative history
• SCIENCE FICTION

  • Focuses on futuristic technology, space, AI.
  • Stories with scientific basis or possibilities
• FANTASY

  • Features magical, mythical, or supernatural elements that do not exist in the real world.
• APOCALYPTIC

  • Centers on world ending events
  • Deals with the end of civilization
• POST APOCALYPTIC

  • Set after a world ending disaster.
  • Explores survival and rebuilding.
• UTOPIAN

  • Depicts a perfect or idealized society.
  • Themes of peace, harmony
• DYSTOPIAN

  • Opposite of utopia
  • Depicts a flawed, undesirable society.
• ALTERNATE HISTORY

  • Explores "what if" scenarios where historical events happened differently.