What are the uses of Asian American literature and culture in relation to “Asian America” as a structure and marker of difference? How does the study of Asian America in speculative fiction remain useful to the scholarly enterprise of Asian American Studies in the 2020s and beyond? This panel explores these questions to determine how the genre of speculative fiction imagines alternatives to structures of state-sanctioned legibility. Through a reading of diverse forms such as novels, films, anthologies, and television shows, this panel explores how legible conceptions of an Asian American identity can be queered, disrupted, and speculated. In other words, our engagements with speculative fiction, to think with Kandice Chuh, imagine otherwise relations to each other through kinship, whether familial, communal, or writerly. Speculative fiction often takes on common tropes but is read as an uncommon or minor literary or cultural text. Taking on the wide range of speculative genres – fantasy, alternative history, science fiction, cyberpunk, and more – this panel seeks to disrupt the legibility of these forms by engaging with Asian American cultural objects that similarly reject notions of a legible Asian American identity. Is “Asian America” itself a speculative fiction? More broadly, this panel explores the usefulness of this minor genre to generate conversations on how speculative Asian American fiction, and more broadly, speculating future literary and cultural engagements in Asian American Studies can imagine illegible forms of human and more than human relations outside of or through the family, the canonical text, and the nation-state.