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Science fiction is storytelling with a focus on characters dealing with advances in technology, the future, and space. (noun)

An example of science fiction is War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

See science fiction in Webster's New World College Dictionary

fiction of a highly imaginative or fantastic kind, typically involving some actual or projected scientific phenomenon

See science fiction in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background.

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sciˌence-ficˈtion (sīˌəns-fĭkˈshən) adjective

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