science fiction
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- noun
- /ˈsaɪəns ˈfɪkʃən/
- Literature
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ciencia ficción
- She has a collection of science fiction books that explore time travel and space exploration.
- science fiction writer
- science fiction and fantasy
- science fiction books
I didn't really start reading science fiction until much, much later.
- I didn't really start reading science fiction until much, much later.
- And my dad was an abstract painter and science fiction writer and Baha'i.
- This favorite fuel of science fiction, it is real.
- And then he also writes his first science fiction story, Passport to Eternity.
- And Neil didn't pick science fiction, fantasy and Sandman for no reason.
- It wasn't, you know, by a big name science fiction author all the time.
- Yeah, like the science fiction type of thing.
- And I thought that was a very bad science fiction thing.
- Everyone is the science fiction writer of their own life.
Examples
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Ideas such as human-like robots have long been known from science fiction literature.
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After all, most of science fiction is based on true science potential.
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So this is probably not a science fiction game, right?
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If that sounds like science fiction, it's because it is.
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Months went by as science fiction became a reality.
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Most consider these works of science fiction.
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I always liked science fiction stories.
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What is your all time favorite science fiction spacecraft?
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A pair of boys talk about which book to choose next from the science fiction shelves.
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Schimel got started writing science fiction stories, making his first sale while in high school.
Academic text (2008)
How Realistic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a genre of fiction about scientific or technological themes' is directly compositional from 'science' (scientific matters) + 'fiction' (imagined stories), so a learner who knows both words can infer the genre. The noun+noun compound pattern is common across languages (e.g., Spanish 'ciencia ficción', French 'science‑fiction') and follows standard English compounding, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Science fiction may come from putting together science, meaning real ideas about nature and technology, and fiction, meaning made-up stories. One popular idea is that writers used real scientific ideas to imagine new worlds, machines, and future life, so science fiction now means 'stories about imagined science, future technology, space, or time travel'.