With Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback, H.G. Wells invented the genre of science fiction.https://nyti.ms/3oN27IO
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This take. It is bad. And Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" 50 years before H.G. Wells was born.
Margaret Cavendish wrote The Blazing World, which was based on science and included travel to another world, aliens, and submarines, in 1666. Shelley popularised it, by Cavendish came first.
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It's now on my to be read list, thank you.
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I hope you find it interesting! Cavendish was a fascinating character - the first woman to visit the Royal Society, although as a woman she was barred from membership. The Blazing World is very early long-form prose fiction, so possibly not as entertaining as Frankenstein>
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I'm muting this thread now. I need my mentions back and this is a topic I've talked a lot about over the years. Most of my best opinions on the matter are captured in 'Remembering Margaret Cavendish' - my essay in Speculative Fiction 2012https://www.amazon.co.uk/Speculative-Fiction-2012-commentary-2013-04-23/dp/B01HC1H57K …
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Good point, and thank you for making it. I mentioned Shelley because of how popular her work is, even now, but I should not have omitted Cavendish and the various other authors who wrote things now called early science fiction.
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Thankyou. I was trying to remember the name.
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Its on Kindle for $2, I just bought it. Thanks for telling me about her, I never knew!pic.twitter.com/p06xdW6udD
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Somnium by Johannes Kepler (the Astronomer) was published in 1634.... there’s probably earlier stuff too
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The first (as far as I'm aware) is Lucian, who wrote A True History in the 2nd century A.D. - a story which includes a trip to the moon, a war between alien beasties, weird gender reversals, and the protagonists even stop off at Atlantis on their way home
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I did not know this and am now richer because I do. Thank you.
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