imaginative fiction

Noun

imaginative fiction (uncountable)

1. Fiction not based on reality; a class of fiction including but not necessarily limited to fantasy, horror and science fiction.
   • Particular professors and sober Scotchmen may denounce as childish the desire for imaginative fiction.1914 March 7, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, All-Story Weekly, Letters
   • The questions of whether Esperanto has any place in the science fiction field and whether there is any justification for the modification of the English language for the convenience of the imaginative fiction reader, seem both to be issues on which there can be little in the way of a compromise.1936 December, Maurice K. Hanson, “Editorial”, in Novae Terrae, volume 1, number 9, page 3

   Synonyms:

   speculative fiction