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scientific romance
noun
Science fiction
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EINSTEIN IN LOVE: A Scientific Romance, by Dennis Overbye.
Though it is subtitled "A Scientific Romance," love fails to triumph.
In both terms - scientific romance and science fiction - the science element is a qualifier.
His major works, which were adapted for film many times, remained popular into the 21st century, and the "scientific romance" became a permanent fixture of Western popular entertainment.
That idea, the crossbreeding of the gothic and the scientific romance, was released from into the world, and would become a key metaphor for our times.
In April, Dennis Overbye, the New York Times's deputy science editor, publishes Einstein in Love: a Scientific Romance, his new biography of the great scientist concentrating on his marriage to Mileva.
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But the early scientific romances of Wells remain vital and are seen to have been prophetic.
Scientific romances were hardly respectable, so he moved into more established literary forms.
His reputation would have been very different, probably much higher, and it would rest squarely on the scientific romances".
Wells was not the creator of the genre — Jules Verne explored the romance of modern technology decades before Wells wrote his scientific romances.
While H. G. Wells's early works were called scientific romances (before the term science fiction became common), they tilted far more toward science than romance.
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