They are what lawyers call legal fictions.

律师叫它们法人。

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”依旧存留在幻小说当中。

Yes. This is the science fiction doomsday scenario.

的。这幻小说中的末日场景。

Perhaps the apparent superficiality of touch is the fiction.

也许触摸在表面上的肤浅一种虚构。

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

这感觉像幻小说，但事实并非如此。

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

在一卖给我们假象的世界里，请聆听。

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

这不的东西，虚构故事。

It used to be science fiction.

这想法往往在幻小说中出现。

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

我把它们都读了一遍，都小说。

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

我通常喜欢读幻小说作为我的睡前阅读。

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

然而这民众笃信、影响深远的说法。

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

然而，老总们却乐于维持自己虚构的公民战士形象。

And it definitely wasn't light fiction.

这绝对不轻松小说。

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

布克国际文奖表彰全球经过翻译的幻作品。

This led her to reading and writing science fiction and other stories.

这使她开始阅读和写作幻小说和其他故事。

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

从小开始，我开始看幻小说。

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

但在 20 世纪 50 年代末，从太空拍照基本上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“这只精彩的投机小说，”这位导演告诉《新闻周刊》。