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science-fictionish en · ADJ

Etymology

From science fiction + -ish.

Meanings

1. (informal) Similar to science fiction.
   • That was sort of science-fictionish, so I got back into science fiction after that. Q: Now that you are writing science fiction consciously, as opposed to when you were doing it without knowing it was science fiction, does this change[…] 2012 July 9, Darrell Schweitzer, George R.R. Martin, James Morrow, Charles Stross, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Joe W. Haldeman, Harry Turtledove, Zoran Zivkovic, Esther M. Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis, Gregory Frost, Tom Purdom, D. G. Compton, Howard Waldrop, Speaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 181:
   • Oh, speaking of science-fictionish, are you aware of the fact that one branch of future studies and future methodologies grew out of the Pentagon?90 Think about those futures. In 1983, Bob Dylan would sing, in “Union Sundown” (Infidels)[…] 2009 12, Terry Stocker, The Paleolithic Paradigm, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 51:
   • Citing “spare, surreal, science-fictionish” television ads that are “unmistakably evocative of the sixties (or fifties),” Appadurai observes a dynamic that looks backward and forward simultaneously (77). In remembering 1950s futurism,[…] 2014 September 1, Rob Latham, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 443:

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science-fictiony