How to Use science fiction in a Sentence

science fiction

noun
  • Time travel exists only in the realm of science fiction.
  • Here is the part that sounds like science fiction but is not.
    — Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • For decades, this idea lived at the edge of science fiction.
    — Monika Piotrowska, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
  • And that might feel even more like science fiction.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • His movies hold up, and that’s hard to do with science fiction.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • There are three main science fiction brands.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Yet is most science fiction space-based?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This is no longer science fiction.
    — Ashutosh Saxena, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The rise of the robots is science fiction no more.
    — Marc Lieberman, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • There’ve been some epic science fiction film scores over the last 50-plus years.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This is not a science fiction problem.
    — Shreyans Mehta, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • As for the science fiction genre itself?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Sounds like something out of science fiction.
    — Erika Beras, NPR, 17 June 2026
  • Driverless cars may sound like science fiction.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
  • These machines do not look much like the flying cars of science fiction.
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • For decades, humanoid robots lived in science fiction and in high-tech labs.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Know someone who still thinks self-driving cars are science fiction?
    — Kim Komando, FOXNews.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The science fiction nature of the show expands as well.
    — Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
  • This concept even echoes science fiction.
    — Vincentas Grinius, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Not to plant a flag and pick up some rocks, but to actually put down a moon base is like science fiction.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Part science fiction, part Willy Wonka, all ice and curves and colours.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2026
  • The best science fiction shows us new ways to see our lives and our times by showing us how both might be otherwise.
    — Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Glow-in-the-dark plants bright enough to light up streets at night may sound like the stuff of science fiction or fantasy.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At least, this has been a consistent theme in science fiction films and books for the past 40 years.
    — Tamsin Gable, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • These aren’t science fiction; they’re being built today.
    — Lori Thomas, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Robot umpires are no longer science fiction.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The story, like a lot of science fiction, has some relevance to the real world.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 27 May 2026
  • Twenty-first-century science fiction has played on this idea.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This last fact inspired her enough to turn off the television and start writing science fiction in earnest.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • And what does science fiction get wrong about survival on one of our closest cosmic neighbors?
    — Alan Bradley, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2026

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