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Meanings of fantastique in English

Russian
speculative fiction
Portuguese
ficção especulativa
Spanish
fantastico
Catalan
ficció especulativa

Literary and cinematic genre that includes science fiction, horror, fantasy and alternate history.

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Examples for "speculative fiction"
Examples for "speculative fiction"
1
They all feature in a new collection of New Zealand speculative fiction.
Radio NZ
2
Is that why speculative fiction is so often dystopic, do you think?
The new yorker
3
Babysitting robots, once the province of speculative fiction, are on the market.
Wired
4
Why bother with speculative fiction if your speculations are so deadeningly unsurprising?
The Irish Times
5
Damien G Walter is a writer of weird and speculative fiction.
The Guardian
Usage of fantastique in English
1
Horror writer Clive Barker has a word for it - fantastique.
The Irish Times
2
She'd broken, her sanity had taken refuge where this fantastique couldn't get at it.
Complete Books of Blood
3
By today's post you receive my last revision of Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique."
Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 / from Rome to the End
4
It will be accompanied by Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique which tells the story of a failed love affair.
Radio NZ
5
Mathieu was right, they were fantastique.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
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When he did so, his passion found shape and expression in a great musical work,-theSymphonic Fantastique.
Woman's Work in Music
7
Set her to living-room volume and ask her to play Berlioz's rapturous epic of sex and opioids: Symphonie Fantastique.
Wired
8
The "Harold" music was now finished and Berlioz advertised both this and the Symphonie Fantastique for a concert at the Conservatoire, December 16, 1838.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians