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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5. Science Fiction gets born every time the narrative making imagination encounters science & tries to incorporate it.
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6. I want to talk about the little known science fictional dimension in the works of two great poets, Donne & Milton.
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7. Paradise Lost, book 7: the heavens are "immense, with Starr's Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a World Of destind habitation"
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8. Subsequently, in book 8, Adam and the angel Raphael have a discussion of cosmology (which bores the hell out Eve).
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9. Adam asks, why are there so many worlds. It doesn't make sense to create so vast a universe just for humanity. What's going on?
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10. Raphael says: don't concern yourself with this stuff, this shit is too deep for you, just keep your mind on God's law & theology.
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11. Behind this passage lies a fascinating historical fact, in 1638 when he was 30 years old Milton met the great astronomer Galileo.
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13. Galileo at that point was old, blind, crushed by the Inquisition which had forced him to renounce his great discoveries.
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