science fiction
noun
: fiction dealing principally with the impact of actual or imagined science on society or individuals or having a scientific factor as an essential orienting component
Examples of science fiction in a Sentence
Time travel exists only in the realm of science fiction.
Recent Examples on the Web
Fusion energy, long a figment of science fiction, may become a viable source of power in the coming decades.
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Kelly Sims Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
The classic science fiction novel where a young boy survives a family betrayal on an inhospitable world.
5 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM (Tor, $18.99).
—Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the CERN research centre near Geneva was widely hailed as the biggest advance in knowledge about the cosmos for over 30 years, and pointed physics towards ideas that were once science fiction.
—Reuters, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
But by the spring of 1938, Hubbard started honing his craft in science fiction.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2024
For most people, the term evokes thoughts of science fiction movies in which computers or robots achieve a degree of sentience, reaching or even exceeding human intelligence (and frequently going rouge, à la 2001’s HAL or The Matrix’s Agent Smith).
—Sean Hanlon, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
The argument is one that some Apple critics have made for years, as spelled out in an essay in January by Cory Doctorow, the science fiction writer, tech critic, and coauthor of Chokepoint Capitalism.
—Andy Greenberg Andrew Couts, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
In science fiction, teleportation is an expedient device to deliver people from one place to another with no time wasted on the journey.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
Vigo, who founded her studio in 1959 after spending time in Switzerland and the United States, was inspired by science fiction and the style codes of the burgeoning aerospace industry, as immortalized in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
The classic science fiction novel where a young boy survives a family betrayal on an inhospitable world.
5 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM (Tor, $18.99).
—Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the CERN research centre near Geneva was widely hailed as the biggest advance in knowledge about the cosmos for over 30 years, and pointed physics towards ideas that were once science fiction.
—Reuters, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
But by the spring of 1938, Hubbard started honing his craft in science fiction.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2024
For most people, the term evokes thoughts of science fiction movies in which computers or robots achieve a degree of sentience, reaching or even exceeding human intelligence (and frequently going rouge, à la 2001’s HAL or The Matrix’s Agent Smith).
—Sean Hanlon, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
The argument is one that some Apple critics have made for years, as spelled out in an essay in January by Cory Doctorow, the science fiction writer, tech critic, and coauthor of Chokepoint Capitalism.
—Andy Greenberg Andrew Couts, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
In science fiction, teleportation is an expedient device to deliver people from one place to another with no time wasted on the journey.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
Vigo, who founded her studio in 1959 after spending time in Switzerland and the United States, was inspired by science fiction and the style codes of the burgeoning aerospace industry, as immortalized in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
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“Science fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science%20fiction. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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