future war

English

Noun

future war (uncountable)

(literature) A subgenre of science fiction which involves warfare and how it might be conducted in the future.
- 1997, Brooks Landon, Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 44:
  Other late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century novelists utilized thinly disguised Edison-surrogates in a range of future war books.

References

Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “future war, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

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