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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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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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