They are what lawyers call legal fictions.

师叫它们法人。

Fear twists facts into fiction that becomes indistinguishable from ignorance.

畏惧会让事实变得扭曲虚幻。在无知者看来难辨真伪。

For the moment, mind-reading is still science fiction.

目前“读心”依旧存留在科幻小说当中。

This feels like utter science fiction, and yet it's not.

这感觉就像科幻小说，但事实并非如此。

In a world that has sold us fiction, please listen.

在一个卖给我们假象的世界里，请聆听。

It's not a scientific thing, it's a fiction.

这不是科的东西，是个虚构故事。

It used to be science fiction.

这个想法往往在科幻小说中出现。

And I would read them all, and they were all fiction.

我把它们都读了一遍，都是小说。

I usually like to read science fiction as my bedtime reading.

我通常喜欢读科幻小说作为我的睡前阅读。

Yet it's a very powerful fiction that people really believe.

这是个民众笃信、影响深远的说法。

Still, they like to preserve the fiction of the citizen soldier.

，总们却乐于维持自己虚构的公民战士形象。

The Man Booker International Prize celebrates translated fictions from around the world.

布克国际文奖是表彰全球经过翻译的科幻作品。

And it definitely wasn't light fiction.

这绝对不是轻松小说。

Since I was in primary school, I started to read science fictions.

从小开始，我就开始看科幻小说。

Yes. This is the science fiction doomsday scenario.

是的。这就是科幻小说中的末日场景。

But in the late 1950s, taking photos from space was basically science fiction.

但是在 20 世纪 50 年代末，从太空拍照基本上是科幻小说里才会有的事情。

I missed it so much, I took a stab at writing fan fiction.

我太迫不及待了 自己先写了同人小说。

Weir thought it was just wonderfully speculative fiction, the director tells Newsweek.

认为“这只是精彩的投机小说，”这位导演告诉《新闻周刊》。

And yet, the creation of weapons that can shoot antimatter is no longer fiction.

，制造出可以发射反物质的武器不再是虚构的。

So there have been some science fiction that have tried to use that vehicle.

所以有些科幻作品尝试从这个途径借题发挥。