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Synonyms for sci-fi
ˈsaɪˈfaɪsci-fi
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When we think of robots, we tend to think of all of the big advancements coming out of Southeast Asia, and I don’t think it’s because they’re better at robots than we are -- I think they like robots more than we do and so they’re not afraid of them, i think the one thing that’s held back American robotics research for a long time is that in the West, we have this sci-fi culture of pretty scary robots, and so we have all of these horror stories of robots gone mad, and they don’t have that culture in Southeast Asia.
He's only ever going to understand it through our ability to describe it, and through news stories. The horror, so many people have said it's like sitting watching a sci-fi film, isn't it? You couldn't write the pandemic as a film.
Remember the first one? Atwood said referring to Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Two guys fly a plane in the middle of something and blow that up? The only difference is, in‘Star Wars,’ they get away, right after 9/11, they hired a bunch of Hollywood screenwriters to tell them how the story might go next. Sci-fi writers are very good at this stuff, anticipating future events. They don’t all come true, but there are interesting ‘what if’ scenarios.
You can have all of this fancy stuff and a sci-fi movie is whatever it wants to be. Everyone is trying to outgun each other. This isn't about that. This is about the force.
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
Translations for sci-fi
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- الخيال العلميArabic
- sci-fiDanish
- Science-FictionGerman
- ciencia ficciónSpanish
- science-fictionFrench
- Sci-fiHindi
- sci-fiIndonesian
- fantascienzaItalian
- サイエンスフィクションJapanese
- sci-fi,Latin
- Sci-fiNorwegian
- sci-fiPolish
- ficção científicaPortuguese
- SFRomanian
- научно-фантастическийRussian
- sci-fiSwedish
- அறிவியல் புனைகதைTamil
- Sci-FiThai
- bilimkurguTurkish
- науково-фантастичнийUkrainian
- Sci-FiYiddish
- 科幻Chinese
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