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单词 imaginative fiction
释义

imaginative fiction

English

Noun

imaginative fiction (uncountable)

  1. Fiction not based on reality; a class of fiction including but not necessarily limited to fantasy, horror and science fiction.
    • 1914 March 7, Lovecraft, Howard Phillips, All-Story Weekly, Letters:
      Particular professors and sober Scotchmen may denounce as childish the desire for imaginative fiction.
    • 1936 December 1, Hanson, Maurice K., “Editorial”, in Novae Terrae, volume 1, number 9, page 3:
      The questions of whether Esperanto has any place in the science fiction field and whether there is any justification for the modification of the English language for the convenience of the imaginative fiction reader, seem both to be issues on which there can be little in the way of a compromise.
    • 1947 February 1–March 1, “Masthead”, in Fantasy Review, volume 1, number 1, page 2:
      A Journal for Readers, Writers and Collectors of Imaginative Fiction

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:speculative fiction

References

  • “imaginative fiction” in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 97.
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