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- Written during the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, Johannes Kepler 's Somnium (1634), Francis Bacon 's New Atlantis (1627), Athanasius Kircher 's Itinerarium extaticum (1656), Cyrano de Bergerac 's Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon (1657) and The States and Empires of the Sun (1662), Margaret Cavendish 's "The Blazing World" (1666), Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels (1726), Ludvig Holberg 's Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741) and Voltaire 's...
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Feb 3, 2023 · Science fiction's first extant tale comes from Lucian of Samosta, an Assyrian living in what's now modern-day, southeast Turkey, who wrote "Verae Historiae" ("True Histories") in Greek. The work, neither true nor history, remains one of the most bananas, over-the-top pieces of satire ever written.
Sep 18, 2023 · But where did this genre originate? And what were the first science fiction stories ever written? Today, we delve into the early roots of science fiction and explore some of the pioneering works that laid the foundation for this genre's enduring popularity. 1. "The Epic of Gilgamesh" (circa 2100 BC)
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Octavia E. Butler. Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. [2] [3] Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother.
- Writer
- Science fiction
- 1970–2006
A lot of Utopian novels in the same vein as The Republic were written a few hundred years ago: There is Bacon's New Atlantis in the 17th century, Moore's Utopia and Cavendish's Description of a New World in the 16th century.
Nov 22, 2021 · The Blazing World, by Margaret Cavendish (1666) ! This book is arguably the first science fiction book ever written. The Blazing World's language may be dated, but this fearless feminist text...
Aug 18, 2021 · Liu Cixin became the first author from Asia to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel, for The Three-Body Problem, the first volume in this series about one of the oldest questions in science fiction...
The alien invasion featured in H. G. Wells ' 1897 novel The War of the Worlds, as illustrated by Henrique Alvim Corrêa. Space exploration, as predicted in August 1958 by the science fiction magazine Imagination.
