scientific romance

Noun

countable dated uncountable

(dated) Science fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Japanese Meaning

（古い表現）19世紀末から20世紀初頭にかけての初期のサイエンスフィクション、すなわち科学を題材とした幻想小説のこと。 / （旧用法）科学的ロマンス―科学を背景とした物語を指し、特に19世紀末～20世紀初頭に発展した初期のサイエンスフィクションの意味で用いられる。

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Many readers today overlook the subtle social critiques embedded in nineteenth-century scientific romance.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

今日の多くの読者は、19世紀末から20世紀初頭の初期SFに込められた繊細な社会的批判を見落としている。

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(dated) Science fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Among the younger men who were winning fame—with the surge and thunder that heralded the youth of the nineties—was Rudyard Kipling; the seething brain of H. G. Wells was boiling over into scientific romance; and old romance was brought to life by the charm of Anthony Hope.

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Science fiction written in a deliberately anachronistic style, as a homage to or pastiche of early science fiction.

scientific romances

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