Verne had by then fully established the "scientific romance" as a genre.
He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances.
Friedman is happy to tailor his sales pitch to aesthetes who value scientific romance over rocket science.
His reputation would have been very different, probably much higher, and it would rest squarely on the scientific romances.
Our scientific romances were always full of machine servants, in the shape of men.
The story between these covers is just a scientific romance.
I started to write my scientific romance.
In the late 19th century, the term "scientific romance" was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction.
Other related terms for fiction of this type include scientific romances.
Technically a future war story rather than a scientific romance; the technology is what was available at the time.