Weir thought it was just wonderfully speculative fiction, the director tells Newsweek.

认为“这只是精彩的投机小说，”这位导演告诉《新闻周刊》。

I said earlier that it was science fiction, but really it's more speculative fiction.

我之前说过这是科幻小说，但实际上它更像是推理小说。

The Handmaid's Tale is what Atwood calls speculative fiction, meaning it theorizes about possible futures.

使女的故事是阿特伍德所说的投机小说，意思是它对可能的未来进行了理论化。

New ideas, new concepts and new words were introduced in the early science fiction and speculative fiction novels of Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.

玛丽·雪莱、儒勒·凡尔纳和 H.G. 威尔斯的早期科幻小说和推理小说引入了新思想、新概念和新词汇。

Even before the invention of the electric light bulb, the author produced a remarkable work of speculative fiction that would foreshadow many ethical questions to be raised by technologies yet to come.

这部科幻名著，它在电气时代到来前就预测到了技术进步必然带来的诸多伦理问题。

Echoes of Norse tales and creatures abound  in the speculative fiction of Ursula Le Guin, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Tad Williams,   and others.

厄休拉·勒金、J. R. R. 托尔金、C. S. 刘易斯、泰德·威廉姆斯等人的推理小说中随处可见北欧故事和生物。

Courttia Newland's A River Called Time (Canongate, January) is a vast and wildly ambitious piece of speculative fiction that asks what the world would look like if slavery and colonialism never existed.

Courtia Newland 的 A River Called Time（Canongate， 一月）是一部宏大而雄心勃勃的投机小说， 它询问如果奴隶制和殖民主义不存在， 世界会是什么样子。