sf
science fiction.
sf
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science fiction.
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sinking fund.
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Example Sentences
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We ran an “Ode on the Death of Philip K. Dick,” by sf great Thomas M. Disch.
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022
This paranoia-rich subgenre runs throughout sf, from Jack Finney’s body snatchers to Robert Heinlein’s puppet masters to half the work of Philip K. Dick.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2019
There’s an old joke about the golden age of science fiction being 12 — that is, the age when young people discover and then devour as much sf as they can find.
From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2018
Alice Sheldon, one of Washington’s two supremely influential sf writers.
From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2018
This slow Prelude, short though it be, is most carefully planned; with its crescendo from pp to a sf forte and its free modulation it arouses a genuine feeling of expectancy.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
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