science fiction
science fiction
Definition
science fiction
noun
fiction of a highly imaginative or fantastic kind, typically involving some actual or projected scientific phenomenon
science fiction
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- read: The questions are: Why do people read science fiction?
- write: I wanted to write science fiction, and got involved in politics instead!
- watch: Kids that are entering school, watching science fiction, they are our hope for the future.
- do: I was due to do Red Dwarf but the BBC powers thought that I'd done enough science fiction.
Preposition: as
- genre: Anyone who is a fan of the birth of science fiction as a genre should read this book.
Adjective modifier
- British: British science fiction had already been there, done that.
- modern: And, unlike most modern science fiction, it is blessed with good acting and an intelligent script.
- American: Whatever the reason, cyberpunk marked a sea change in American science fiction.
- good: It was a low budget, high concept piece that was very good science fiction.
- more: The Review: This pretty sub-standard but infamous 50s horror film is more science fiction than anything else.
- early: I would recommend this book to those with an interest in Victorian literature and early science fiction.
Modifies a noun
- writer: The science fiction writer, Frank Herbert, featured clones in many of his novels.
- novel: Many of their theories were already written about in science fiction novels in the first place.
- film: The science fiction film, stemming from the imagination, stimulates it further.
- movie: They are of course the basis for all those science fiction movies of the Back to the Future sort.
- fan: Robert Abel himself had a partner, a science fiction fan of long-standing, called Carl Pederson.
- genre: Mr. Resnick writes in such a way as to make use of the reader's existing knowledge of the science fiction genre.
Noun used with modifier
- adult: Does the way in which your teenage fiction is marketed differ greatly from your adult science fiction?
- part: The novel is part thriller, part historical novel and part science fiction.
Possessives
- today: But today's science fiction, is often tomorrow's science fact.
Browse dictionary entries near science fiction
- scienter
- sciential
- scientific
- scientific method
- scientific notation
- scientifically
- scientism
- scientist
- scil.
- scilicet
