“It is not as easy as it looks,” Holden Thorp, Science’s chief editor, commented at the end of 2021, when explaining new research findings of the COVID-19 pandemic to the public had encountered great difficulties.1 As a matter of fact, science communication has never been easy because serious scientific knowledge is prone to be boring rather than interesting. There is only one atypical medium for science communication, i.e., the science fiction movie (sci-fi movie for short), that has a huge amount of fans.
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