In dictionaries:
science fiction
Exploration of speculative scientific concepts.
short fiction
historical fiction
Fictional stories set in past.
Detective fiction
a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.
popular fiction
legal fiction
Assumed fact accepted for legality.
pulp fiction
Fiction using vivid, sensational material.
Crime fiction
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.
Fiction writing
the composition of non-factual prose texts.
romantic fiction
Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.
Horror fiction
Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare.
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