future war

English

Noun

future war (uncountable)

1. (literature) A subgenre of science fiction which involves warfare and how it might be conducted in the future.
   • 1997, Brooks Landon, Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 44:

     Other late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century novelists utilized thinly disguised Edison-surrogates in a range of future war books.

References

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “future war, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.