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"I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Science Fiction | ||
| Literature that interweaves "the revealed truths of Science" with a "pleasing story" that is "poetical and true." |
As far as anyone knows, the first use of the phrase "science fiction."
| "We hope it will not be long before we may have other works of Science-Fiction [like Richard Henry Horne's The Poor Artist], as we believe such books likely to fulfil a good purpose, and create an interest, where, unhappily, science alone might fail. [Thomas] Campbell says, that 'Fiction in Poetry is not the reverse of truth, but her soft and enchanting resemblance.' Now this applies especially to Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true—thus circulating a knowledge of the Poetry of Science, clothed in a garb of the Poetry of life." |
| Technovelgy from A Little Earnest Book Upon a Great Old Subject,
by William Wilson. Published by Not Known in 1851 Additional resources -
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Compare to scientifiction from Thought Transmission on Mars, by Hugo Gernsback, published by Electrical Experimenter in 1916.
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