soft science fiction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A subgenre of science fiction that focuses on the nature of its speculative societies or that employs pseudoscience.

Word forms

soft science fiction

Etymology

After hard science fiction, attributed to Peter Nicholls.

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