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scientific romance en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, dated, uncountable) Science fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
   • Among the younger men who were winning fame—with the surge and thunder that heralded the youth of the nineties—was Rudyard Kipling; the seething brain of H. G. Wells was boiling over into scientific romance; and old romance was brought to life by the charm of Anthony Hope. 1921, Stephen McKenna, chapter II, in While I Remember:
2. (countable, uncountable) Science fiction written in a deliberately anachronistic style, as an homage to or a pastiche of early science fiction.

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Relateds

Wellsian · Vernian · edisonade

Translations (1)

pl romans naukowy (science fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries)