rubber science en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined by Norman Spinrad in his essay "Rubber Sciences", published in The Craft of Science Fiction (1976). He defined it as "pseudo-science […] made up by the writer with literary care that it not be discontinuous with the reader's realm of the possible."
Meanings
- (uncountable) Convincing quasi-scientific explanations used in science fiction to aid the suspension of disbelief.