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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2. In general, it's a mistake to ask "what was the first example of a thing" -- history is a process & there are always many precursors.
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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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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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@WindJess See also here: https://storify.com/JeetHeer1/adam-as-the-first-mansplainer-a-new-reading-of-par …
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