scientific romances

Noun

scientific romance (countable and uncountable, plural scientific romances)

1. (dated) Science fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
   • Among the younger men who were winning fame—with the surge and thunder that heralded the youth of the nineties—was Rudyard Kipling; the seething brain of H. G. Wells was boiling over into scientific romance; and old romance was brought to life by the charm of Anthony Hope.1921, Stephen McKenna, chapter II, in While I Remember
2. Science fiction written in a deliberately anachronistic style, as an homage to or a pastiche of early science fiction.