01-28-2014, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by rogueteens
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I'll see your wiki link and raise you 3 links with quotes:
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Brian Aldiss claims Frankenstein represents "the first seminal work to which the label Science Fiction can be logically attached".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History... n_precursors
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The origins of SF
If we require that "science fiction" be in some sense fiction about modern science and technology (which seems a reasonable demand), then the genre could not have begun until the late18th century.
And the first bonafide science fiction classic is probably Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)--a gothic tale of technoscientific aspiration, hubris, and retribution that continues to gain fans not only in Hollywood (five different productions in the 1990s!) but among contemporary SF readers as well.
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http://condor.depaul.edu/dsimpson/awtech/scifi.htm
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Labeled "the first great myth of the industrial age" in the form of a novel that many now accept as the progenitor of modern science fiction: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
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http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/sfhist.html |
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