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
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Time travel exists only in the realm of science fiction.
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The actual company was born out of a conversation Bezos, long a science fiction enthusiast, had with friend and science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who became the company’s first employee.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 May 2026
Ken Paller, a sleep researcher and a cognitive neuroscientist at Northwestern University, told me that Simon and Emmons effectively condemned sleep learning to the realm of science fiction and quackery.
—Shayla Love, New Yorker, 1 May 2026
As urbanist scholar Federico Cugurullo and geography researchers Isobel Lee and Rebecca Weir found when speaking with people involved in The Line between 2022 and 2024, the project represented a strange mixture of western science fiction aesthetics and authoritarian ambitions.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 May 2026
Fallout does for postapocalyptic science fiction what Skyrim did for fantasy, taking place in a retrofuturistic, post-nuclear New England.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 May 2026
Ken Paller, a sleep researcher and a cognitive neuroscientist at Northwestern University, told me that Simon and Emmons effectively condemned sleep learning to the realm of science fiction and quackery.
—Shayla Love, New Yorker, 1 May 2026
As urbanist scholar Federico Cugurullo and geography researchers Isobel Lee and Rebecca Weir found when speaking with people involved in The Line between 2022 and 2024, the project represented a strange mixture of western science fiction aesthetics and authoritarian ambitions.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 May 2026
Fallout does for postapocalyptic science fiction what Skyrim did for fantasy, taking place in a retrofuturistic, post-nuclear New England.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Science fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science%20fiction. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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