I think a good rule of thumb is to think of it as being "realistic" but with one or two little changes. Like The Time Traveller's Wife or Groundhog Day.
Kinda. 

I am going to read the summer tree because I own it. I've decided it's spec fic because "normal" people are in it. Or something. So like what you said, only more made up stuff rather than less.
RAFO Challenges for May and June: what are your choices?
- 01/05/2011 10:56:11 AM
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Right. I have decided.
- 03/05/2011 12:59:32 PM
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So. Finished the first of my three.
- 09/05/2011 07:49:32 PM
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Are we the only two left doing these challenges? Also: I finished my first as well
- 09/05/2011 07:53:18 PM
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Not at all. But it'll probably be for June, for me, Vanity Fair is taking a while. *NM*
- 10/05/2011 08:11:02 PM
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I don't know what that means.
- 10/05/2011 05:02:15 PM
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I'm counting Summer Tree as spec fic
- 10/05/2011 07:16:15 PM
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I figure the idea is "spec fic" covers everything that's, well, spec fic, without being fantasy / SF
- 10/05/2011 08:09:31 PM
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Huh
- 10/05/2011 10:28:58 PM
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That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly...
- 11/05/2011 08:53:14 PM
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Re: That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly...
- 11/05/2011 08:54:52 PM
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I'd have to agree with Rebekah that e.g. The Time Traveller's Wife qualifies.
- 11/05/2011 09:00:03 PM
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Indeed.
- 10/05/2011 10:37:51 PM
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I'm glad our fearless leaders are so sure.
- 11/05/2011 01:31:52 AM
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Speculative Fiction
- 11/05/2011 02:03:12 PM
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I entirely agree, evidently I phrased my opinion badly though... *NM*
- 11/05/2011 08:55:00 PM
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Pure pimpage: In a few weeks, I'll have a story being published in an anthology that'd meet this
- 11/05/2011 11:18:17 PM
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