rubber science

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Convincing quasi-scientific explanations used in science fiction to aid the suspension of disbelief.

    不可数

词源

Coined by Norman Spinrad in his essay "Rubber Sciences", published in The Craft of Science Fiction (1976). He defined it as "pseudo-science […] made up by the writer with literary care that it not be discontinuous with the reader's realm of the possible."

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