science fiction
His near-future speculative fiction features many advances in medicine and robotics.
It's easy to read this novel - as is the case with all speculative fiction - as a parable of our times.
Speculative fiction is a broad umbrella term.
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale springs to mind as a powerful example of speculative fiction.
He said that he thought the term “Speculative Fiction” stands for various genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy and all sub-genres.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of film, play, book etc.
action thriller
adaptation
Afrofuturism
Aga saga
allegorical
anime
bodice-ripper
boy-meets-girl
director's cut
noir
non-documentary
non-literary
one-shot
paean
parody
potboiler
psychological
sequel
stream of consciousness
tragicomedy