science fiction

See also: science-fiction, Science-fiction, Science-Fiction, and Sciencefiction

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Cover of Rocket to the Moon, a 1951 science fiction comic book.

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Alternative forms edit

science-fiction

Etymology edit

From science +‎ fiction; apparently coined in 1851 by W. Wilson.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪəns ˌfɪkʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Hyphenation: sci‧ence fic‧tion
Rhymes: -ɪkʃən

Noun edit

science fiction (usually uncountable, plural science fictions)

Fiction in which advanced technology or science is a key element.
Synonyms: (dated) scientific romance, (dated) scientifiction, sci-fi, SF, skiffy, stf

Hypernyms: imaginative fiction, non-mimetic fiction, SF/F/H, speculative fiction

Hyponyms: hard science fiction, proto-science fiction, soft science fiction

Coordinate terms: fantasy, horror

Some people consider motion pictures such as the Star Wars movies more as fantasies than science fiction.
(by extension) Technology that, while theoretically possible, is not yet practical.
Despite decades of research, mass-market personal aircraft are still science fiction.

Antonyms edit

science fact

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Translations edit

fiction

Afrikaans: wetenskapfiksie (af)
Arabic: خَيَال عِلْمِيّ m (ḵayāl ʕilmiyy)
Azerbaijani: elmi fantastika
Belarusian: навуко́вая фанта́стыка f (navukóvaja fantástyka), фанта́стыка f (fantástyka)
Bulgarian: нау́чна фанта́стика f (naúčna fantástika)
Catalan: ciència-ficció f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 科學幻想／科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科幻 (zh) (kēhuàn), 科學虛構／科学虚构 (kēxué xūgòu)
Dutch: sciencefiction (nl) m or f
Finnish: tieteiskirjallisuus (fi)
French: science-fiction (fr)
Galician: ciencia ficción (gl) f
Georgian: სამეცნიერო ფანტასტიკა (samecniero panṭasṭiḳa)
German: Science-Fiction (de) f
Greek: επιστημονική φαντασία (el) f (epistimonikí fantasía)
Hebrew: מַדָּע בִּדְיוֹנִי (he) m (madá bid'yóni)
Hungarian: tudományos fantasztikum, tudományos-fantasztikus irodalom, sci-fi (hu)
Icelandic: vísindaskáldskapur m
Irish: ficsean eolaíochta m
Italian: fantascienza (it) f
Japanese: SF (ja) (esuefu), 空想科学小説 (kūsō kagaku shōsetsu), サイエンスフィクション (ja) (saiensu fikushon)
Kazakh: ғылыми фантастика (ğylymi fantastika)
Korean: 과학소설(科學小說) (ko) (gwahaksoseol), 사이언스 픽션 (saieonseu piksyeon), 공상과학 소설(空想科學小說) (gongsanggwahak soseol)
Kyrgyz: илимий фантастика (ilimiy fantastika)
Latin: scientia ficticia f
Macedonian: научна фантастика f (naučna fantastika)
Malay: fiksyen sains
Maori: pohewa pūtaiao
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шинжлэх ухаан уран зөгнөл (šinžlex uxaan uran zögnöl), шинжлэх ухааны хий бодол (šinžlex uxaany xii bodol) (China)

Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠨᠵᠢᠯᠡᠬᠦ
ᠤᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ
ᠤᠷᠠᠨ
ᠵᠥᠩᠨᠡᠯ (sinǰilekü uqaɣan uran ǰöŋnel), ᠰᠢᠨᠵᠢᠯᠡᠬᠦ
ᠤᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠦ
ᠬᠡᠢ
ᠪᠣᠳᠤᠯ (sinǰilekü uqaɣan-ü kei bodul)
Occitan: sciéncia-ficcion f
Persian: علمی تخیلی ('elmi taxayyoli)
Polish: fantastyka naukowa (pl) f
Portuguese: ficção científica (pt) f
Romanian: știință-ficțiune f, science-fiction (ro) n
Russian: фанта́стика (ru) f (fantástika), нау́чная фанта́стика (ru) f (naúčnaja fantástika)
Scottish Gaelic: ficsean saidheans m
Slovak: vedecká fantastika f
Slovene: znanstvena fantastika f
Spanish: ciencia ficción (es) f
Swahili: sayansi ya kubuniwa
Swedish: science fiction (sv)
Tagalog: kathang-agham
Tajik: илмӣ-тахайюлӣ (ilmī-taxayyulī)
Thai: นวนิยายวิทยาศาสตร์
Turkish: bilim kurgu (tr)
Ukrainian: науко́ва фанта́стика f (naukóva fantástyka), фанта́стика f (fantástyka)
Uzbek: ilmiy fantastika
Vietnamese: khoa học viễn tưởng (vi), khoa học giả tưởng
Yiddish: פֿאַקטאַזיע f (faktazye)

technology which is not yet practical

Chinese:
Mandarin: 科學幻想／科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科幻 (zh) (kēhuàn)
Dutch: sciencefiction (nl) m or f, toekomstmuziek (nl) f or c
Finnish: tieteiskirjallisuus (fi)
French: science-fiction (fr) f
German: Science-Fiction (de) f, Zukunftsmusik (de) f
Icelandic: framtíðarmúsík f
Irish: fantaisíocht f
Portuguese: ficção científica (pt) f
Russian: фанта́стика (ru) f (fantástika)
Slovene: znanstvena fantastika f
Turkish: bilim kurgu (tr)