science fiction
compound.compound. stories about the future, space travel, or new technology that does not exist yet.
compound. a genre of speculative fiction typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space exploration, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
I love reading science fiction books about Mars.
Many science fiction movies from the 1960s predicted that we would have flying cars by now.
The author uses science fiction as a lens to critique contemporary social structures by projecting them into a dystopian future.
From science + fiction. First use appears c. 1851. See cite below.
often shortened to 'sci-fi' in casual conversation and media.
help students distinguish this from 'fantasy' by explaining that science fiction usually relies on scientific logic or technology rather than magic.
a science-fictionscience fictionit is an uncountable noun when referring to the genre, so it does not take an indefinite article unless followed by a countable noun like 'novel'.