1. Because you've been good, a little twitter essay on John Donne, John Milton and the many births of science fiction.
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@HeerJeet except the twitter essay, whose origins are clear.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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3. There are many claimants to title of "first science fiction story: Plato, Lucien, Voltaire, Swift, Mary Shelley, Verne, Wells, etc.
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4. It's better to say science fiction wasn't born at any one moment but constantly born again & again: a Phoenix form.
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@HeerJeet I like Borges' idea that artists create their precursors.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet A great example of this is Geoffrey Batchen’s investigations into the mystery of the “first photograph”: http://www.amazon.com/Burning-Desire-Photography-Geoffrey-Batchen/dp/0262522594 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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