One popular fiction author uses the sarlacc as a descriptive term for slowness, a reference to the sarlacc's extended digestive process.

He was originally a fiction/science fiction author.

The proponents in a debate might also use the term handwaving against themselves, in the same sense as a speculative fiction author, as noted above.

Each book in the series offered a facsimile of the first edition of the work with a new introduction written by a contemporary science fiction author.

Important areas of technology, such as robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality have been written about by science fiction authors.