English Explanatory Dictionary

rubber science

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Convincing quasi-scientific explanations used in science fiction to aid the suspension of disbelief.

Word forms

rubber science

Etymology

Coined by Norman Spinrad in his essay "Rubber Sciences", published in The Craft of Science Fiction (1976). He defined it as "pseudo-science […] made up by the writer with literary care that it not be discontinuous with the reader's realm of the possible."

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