science fictionish adj.

I don’t like the cover. First, it is not sufficiently science-fictionish.

Name a present day, professional publication that boasts of a solid, green-blooded, truly science-fictionish name as does Planet Stories.

It has always been difficult to draw a sharply defined line between the spy novel and science fiction. There is often something science-fictionish about The Plans at stake—which is a direct reflection of reality; there is often something science-fictionish about the secrets for which real-life agents contend.

It occurred to me that there is nothing so dramatic for a science-fictionish person such as myself as the Martian canals.

My robots, too, had ‘brains’ that made them work, and I never spoke of them as computers, either. I had to make them science-fictionish, of course, so I called them ‘positronic brains.’ Positrons had been detected for the first time only four years before my first robot story had been written.

Her skill manifests itself in a totally different way in ‘Bacurau’ this year, a crazily fantastical (and violent) science-fictionish allegory of Brazil in crisis that departs from the realism of Mendonça’s other films without abandoning their political passion or their humanism.