how did it start off in historical period?
It was termed "historical invention", "historical fiction" and extensively noted in literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare
Speculative fiction
In historiography, what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed "historical invention", "historical fiction", and similar names. It is extensively noted in literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare as when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, English fairy Puck, and Roman god Cupid across time and space in the Fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
17776 what football will look like in the future UNANSWERABLE what is 17776? It is a serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative who created it? Jon Bois who is he? He is a sports writer, video producer and YouTuber what is the aforesaid type of fiction all about? It is a broad category of fiction encompassing genres covering various themes in the context of the supernatural, futuristic, and many other imaginative topics
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Speculative fiction [SEP] History
In historiography, what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed "historical invention", "historical fiction", and similar names. It is extensively noted in literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare as when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, English fairy Puck, and Roman god Cupid across time and space in the Fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". In mythography the concept of speculative fiction has been termed "mythopoesis" or mythopoeia, "fictional speculation", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings".