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Science fiction, fantasy and everything in between. On television, usually destined for cult status or a very short run. See What If for categories of things that are speculated on. The term was originally a "backronym" for the initials SF. Some writers felt that science fiction, or sci-fi, now equated to flying saucers and rubber monsters, and wanted to distinguish themselves with a new genre label. The desire to create separate categories is even greater when folks apply the sci-fi label to horror stories that contain blatantly supernatural elements (such as various immortals) but few if any science-based elements whatsoever.

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Subtropes:

• Science Fiction
  • Space Opera
  • Cyber Punk
    • Post Cyber Punk
    • Punk Punk
    • Steam Punk
  • Space Western
  • Planetary Romance - science fiction with a fantasy feel.
  • Wagon Train To The Stars - Primarily a TV genre.
  • Inside A Computer System - The Matrix, ExistenZ, Instrument Of God
• Fantasy
  • High Fantasy, epitomised by The Lord Of The Rings
  • Low Fantasy
  • Heroic Fantasy, also called Sword and Sorcery.
  • Urban Fantasy
    • Friendly Neighborhood Vampires
• Mundane Fantastic
  • Fantastic Comedy
  • Magic Realism
• Horror
  • Body Horror
  • Cosmic Horror
  • Defanged Horrors
  • Hammer Horror
  • Survival Horror
• Alternate History
• Ontological Mystery
• Speculative Documentary

However, there are many speculative fiction stories that fall on the border between two genres, and some that are completely unclassifiable. Furthermore, many of these genres can be played for laughs or to terrify, producing genres of comic SF and horror.

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