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science fiction
CIDE DICTIONARY
science fiction, n. [science fiction.].
A genre of fiction in which scientific and technological issues feature prominently, especially including scenarios in which speculative but unproven scientific advances are accepted as fact, and usually set at some time in the future, or in some distant region of the universe. [PJC]
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science fiction
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