science-fictionish adj.
being, resembling, or reminiscent of science fiction n. 2
SF Criticism
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1940
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Isaac Asimov
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I don’t like the cover. First, it is not sufficiently science-fictionish.
Letter in Future Fiction Mar. 108 -
1950
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Wally Weber
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Name a present day, professional publication that boasts of a solid, green-blooded, truly science-fictionish name as does Planet Stories.
Letter in Planet Stories Spring 104/1 -
1965
Anthony Boucher
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.
Criminals At Large in N.Y. Times Book Review 18 July 28/1 -
1975
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Isaac Asimov
It occurred to me that there is nothing so dramatic for a science-fictionish person such as myself as the Martian canals.
in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 128 -
1986
Isaac Asimov
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.
Robot Dreams xiv -
2020
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.
25 Greatest Actors of 21st Century in N.Y. Times 25 Nov.
Research requirements
antedating 1940
Earliest cite
Isaac Asimov
Research History
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1965 cite from Anthony Boucher in the New York Times.Fred Galvin submitted a 1990 cite from a reprint of Isaac Asimov's "Robot Dreams".
Jesse Sheidlower submitted the 1940 cite, and all others.
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