Sci-fi history: everything you wanted to know
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Frankenstein Science Fiction
Is it right to see Gothic literature as being the genre from which science fiction emerged? In some respects, yes. Mary Shelley is the first kind of early flag wave. The horrors now are the things that man can do. H.G. Wells was one of the first people to be trained to teach science in schools and universities.
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