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Penguin Classics: Features (4609 words) |
 | In both 'scientific romance' and 'science fiction', the scientific element is merely an adjective; the nouns are 'romance' and 'fiction'. |
| As a rule, this has caused the romance to be viewed by the high literati – those bent more on instruction than on delight – as escapist and vulgar, a judgment that goes back at least two thousand years. |
| In the sinister portions of a romance, the protagonist is often imprisoned or trapped, or lost in a labyrinth or maze, or a forest that serves the same purpose. |
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Scientific romance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (696 words) |
| Scientific romance is an archaic name for what is now known as the science fiction genre. |
| The term is most associated with the early science fiction of the United Kingdom and the earliest noteworthy use of the term scientific romance is believed to have been by Charles Howard Hinton in his 1886 collection. |
| Christopher Priest (English novelist) used or alluded to "scientific romance" in novels and is a member of the H. |
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