science fiction
35 synonyms found
- adventure story
- allegory
- apologue
- bedtime story
- detective story
- fable
- fabliau
- fairy tale
- fantasy
- fiction
- folk story
- folktale
- gest
- ghost story
- horse opera
- legend
- love story
- Marchen
- mystery story
- myth
- mythology
- mythos
- nursery tale
- parable
- romance
- shocker
- space fiction
- space opera
- suspense story
- thriller
- Western
- Western story
- Westerner
- whodunit
- work of fiction
Definition
(n) :
Fiction in which advanced technology and/or science is a key element; Technology which, while theoretically possible, is not yet practical
"some purists consider the original Star Wars more a Western than science fiction."