science-fictive adj.
relating to or characteristic of science fiction n. 2; science fictional adj.
SF Criticism
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1953
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P. Schuyler Miller
Sir Charles makes several interesting suggestions with science-fictive possibilities.
Reference Library in Astounding Science-Fiction July 154/2 -
1956
Science-fictive effects give this weird tale a speciously contemporary aspect, but what M. Vercors wishes to establish is the old position that any incommunicable personal experience is valueless just because it is incommunicable.
In Search of Self in N.Y. Times Book Review 28 Oct. 7/2 -
1982
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S. P. Somtow
It isnโt in the usual run of the music I write; never, to my knowledge, has the school of neo-Asian post-serialism come up with even a single march, let alone a science-fictive oneโฆ. To begin with, this isnโt science fiction music at all.
The What March? in Asimovโs Science Fiction 87 -
1993
Dear Mr. Martian, I understand you may be somewhat confused by the topsy-turvy, science-fictive ways you encounter here on our alien planet.
Dictionary for these Times in Time June 14 80/1 -
1998
Cyberspace has reinvented our sense of habitat by giving us a new dimension to inhabit: in doing so, it has made literal all our once science fictive notions of seeing the world without leaving the house, or dwelling in a custom-made community with no physical borders.
in Wired Aug. 107/1
Research requirements
antedating 1953
Earliest cite
P. Schuyler Miller, in Astounding
Research History
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1998 cite from an article by Pico Iyer in Wired.Bill Mullins submitted a 1993 cite from an article by Pico Iyer in Time.
Bill Mullins submitted a 1956 cite from the New York Times Book Review.
Jesse Sheidlower submitted a 1953 cite from P. Schuyler Miller in Astounding.
We would like cites of any date from other authors.
Earliest cite in OED: 1956.
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