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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Gee thanks Gernsback So when Margaret Cavendish writes a romance story set on a different world it’s quaint But when the boys do it 200 years later its prophetic and important. Did Gernsback even read Shelley’s Frankenstein?pic.twitter.com/RuxpV7qi8H
not really important to any of this but "scientifiction" is peak "we haven't figured out how to give things snappy names yet".
