Science fiction is stories of space, robots and the future. Read science fiction, a science fiction novel, classic science fiction.
The best of it is about the present rather than the future, since a changed world is a way of examining this one. Writers argue endlessly about where science fiction ends and fantasy begins.
1phrasescience fictionStories of space, robots, and the future.
“He reads a lot of science fiction, from time travel stories to alien invasions.”
science fiction is a genre.
Also accepted in games: sci-fi
Science plus fiction, first recorded in 1851 and established as the name of the genre in the 1920s.
From science + fiction. First use appears c. 1851. See cite below.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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