How to Use science fiction in a Sentence

science fiction

noun

• Time travel exists only in the realm of science fiction.
• Not so long ago, this was the stuff of science fiction.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• One of the precepts of science fiction is that the Age of Space will be like the Age of Sail.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2022
• That last quote isn’t from science fiction, by the way.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• But some of it sounds like a science fiction movie, in terms of fear.
  — CBS News, 9 July 2023
• Twelve years on, this is no longer the stuff of science fiction.
  — Roberto Rey Agudo, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
• The best horror and science fiction mirrors the fears of its age.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• But this was full-strength science fiction, a doctor-in-the-box.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2023
• If this seems the stuff of science fiction, welcome to the world of modern-day medicine.
  — Christopher Hartnick, STAT, 1 Sep. 2022
• UFOs and aliens are often seen as the realm of science fiction.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2021
• The book is now regarded as the first true work of science fiction.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The film is, like the story that inspired it, a work of hard science fiction.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
• This is not the first film to mix Western tropes with science fiction.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• The smart city is no longer something out of science fiction.
  — Pankaj Srivastava, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• The origin point is Neal Stephenson and Snow Crash and decades of science fiction stacked on top of that.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 14 Mar. 2022
• This train of thought is not reserved for fans of science fiction.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
• Here’s what some notable films get right about science and tech — and what’s still the stuff of science fiction.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
• Klein: The idea about India putting sulfates in the air to cool off the planet isn’t pure science fiction.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2021
• It’s one of the first science fiction films where future already has a past.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Sep. 2021
• Most of the tech that NASA has approved grants for feels like something straight out of a science fiction movie.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Mar. 2022
• The metaverse, in part, enabled by the creation of NFTs, is truly the stuff of science fiction.
  — Jess Collen, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2022
• All of these formats, and more, have been explored in very good (and many bad) science fiction tales.
  — WIRED, 6 July 2023
• Changing weather on a large scale is still science fiction, at least in the near term.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• The science fiction author Vernor Vinge passed away on Wednesday, at the age of 79.
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
• There have been some awesome inventions in the world of science fiction over the years.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 12 June 2024
• Liz Braswell chooses the best science fiction and fantasy of the year.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
• Using your thoughts to make things happen in the real world was once a thing of science fiction.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2021
• The first three seasons of the science fiction/horror series each finished in the top five.
  — City News Service, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022
• Spaceballs, his move into science fiction, had the same cult impact.
  — Grace Dean, Space.com, 11 Feb. 2025
• Although the novel could be described as science fiction, the science isn’t meant to be recognizable.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025