What is "science fictional"

Usage examples of "science fictional".

The Red Planet has had some bad publicity over the years, in science fictional promises that were not kept.

The freezing temperature when Shadow opened the car door felt even more science fictional when compared to Las Vegas.

One can read this founding document of western civilization as a science fictional voyage of discovery, both of lands and of the nature of a truly civilized personality.

Then she works her way around to works that are more subtly science fictional -- from J.

Not that the SSC itself was science fictional, although it certainly was (and is).

Even his most science fictional novel, Frontera, about geopolitical rivalties and the colonization of Mars, relies more on the interactions of the characters than it does on Gibsonian crammed prose or Sterling-like extrapolation, and in a traditional literary way it makes allusions to the Jason legend from Greek mythology.

To assist Sagan, Thorne explored the science fictional possibilities of the wormhole, a hypothetical shortcut for travel between distant points in the Universe.

Sometimes the variation is only that they're put into a science fictional setting.

I would love to see a science fictional Lawrence of ,arabia, an epic space opera replete with explosions and aliens and so forth, and that also is gifted with vital characters and a story that aspires to do more than update a fairy tale or repackage a western.

The outstanding examples here being those of professional writers outside the field of science fiction who have tried to do a science fictional work and, failing, discovered that it is a type of literature that goes a great deal deeper than the display of a few surface characteristics and techniques.