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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.

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