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science fiction

[ sahy-uhns fik-shuhn ]

noun

  1. a form of fiction that draws imaginatively on scientific knowledge and speculation in its plot, setting, theme, etc.


science fiction

noun

    1. a literary genre that makes imaginative use of scientific knowledge or conjecture
    2. ( as modifier )

      a science fiction writer



science fiction

  1. Works of fiction that use scientific discoveries or advanced technology — either actual or imaginary — as part of their plot . Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were early writers of science fiction. More recent ones are Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of science fiction1

First recorded in 1925–30

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Example Sentences

The science fiction imagination is a nomad on an endless expedition and the result is a literature of the psyche, torn between the heart that yearns for home and the mind too restless to stay still.

A young couple fights to hold their relationship together in the midst of pandemic, where a memory loss virus is robbing everyone of their memories in Little Fish, a new science fiction romantic drama from IFC Films.

To relax, he would often play chess with another faculty member, Daniel Keyes, author of the heartbreaking science fiction masterpiece “Flowers for Algernon.”

Our cosmos is violent, evolving and filled with science fiction–like possibilities that actually come straight out of general relativity.

While at OED, Sheidlower noted that science fiction was an area that was not very well served by scholarship, partly because science fiction hasn't had much serious literary cache historically.

Read too strictly, this would exclude highly inventive works of science fiction and fantasy because they lack realism.

I never as a reader have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

So that threw it into a realm of sort of science fiction, but that had never been a realm I had ever had an interest in before.

And I thought, ‘I think our songs will get sung at science-fiction conventions!’

At least, that was the story told by the boy-king, who would later become a well-known author of science fiction.

Her hobbies are reading science fiction novels, going to the opera and listening to folk music.

Bakka is the oldest science fiction bookstore in the world, and it made me the mutant I am today.

You find the science-fiction writers more dangerous than the true scientists?

I do not name it to impress you, but to suggest a sort of science-fiction experience.

It's not science-fiction, but it's certainly a fine bit of story.

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