Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Science fiction.
- adjective Of, relating to, being, or similar to science fiction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun informal Science fiction; -- a common shortened form for the name of the literaray genre. See
science fiction .
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- noun colloquial Short for
science fiction .
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Examples
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Re the SF/sci-fi label: when a non-genre mag reviewed my books and described me as a ’sci-fi supremo’ d’you think I was going to write in and bitch about it?
The New Comprehensible, or, This is Not a Literary Manifesto, Thank God « Whatever
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Yet the term sci-fi, for Ms. Atwood, properly applies only to "things that could not possibly happen," like H.G. Wells's invasions from Mars in "War of the Worlds" 1898.
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In a piece published in the New York Times in 1965, Vonnegut insisted that he did not want to be classified as a sci-fi author and said some wounding things about sci-fi enthusiasts: They were clannish and childish about matters outside technology; and not many sci-fi writers could really write.
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As Rebecca, Jones is an intriguing discovery, and Neill classes up the joint, but overall, the script has some of the sparkless blah that has plagued Fox's other big-name sci-fi show this season, "Terra Nova."
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As Rebecca, Jones is an intriguing discovery, and Neill classes up the joint, but overall, the script has some of the sparkless blah that has plagued Fox's other big-name sci-fi show this season, "Terra Nova."
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As Rebecca, Jones is an intriguing discovery, and Neill classes up the joint, but overall, the script has some of the sparkless blah that has plagued Fox's other big-name sci-fi show this season, "Terra Nova."
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But overall, the script has some of the sparkless blah that has plagued Fox's other big-name sci-fi show this season, "Terra Nova."
Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
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His prose, casually neologistic and making deft use of sci-fi tropes, is bracingly sharp.
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review
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Where water really is scarce—on planets other than Earth—novelistic imaginations have created wonderfully tyrannical dystopias, most extravagantly in Frank Herbert's "Dune" 1965, a worthy sci-fi favorite.
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Its sci-fi shoot-'em-up thriller Half-Life 2 has sold 2 million copies since 2004 and is the highest-rated PC game on the Web site Metacritic.
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