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Speculative science fiction stories
Stories such as Time travelling Japanese fairy tales or 1001 Arabian nights existed before the much more standardised era of science fiction -
The Pioneers of Science Fiction
H.G Wells and Jules Verne were authors of many different science fiction novels involving the consequences of human action and greed of human exploration -
Frakenstein
Mary Shelly wrote her novel, Frankenstein, widely considered to be the birthplace of modern science fiction, heavily influenced by the 18th-century movement, called the age of enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution in the 1900s, coming from the Greek myth of Prometheus, The Titan of foresight who against the gods' wishes, granted the knowledge of fire to Humanity. -
Scince fiction begins to go mainstream
Authors were paid by the word and rewarded for quantity over quality, science fiction started appearing next to other forms of 'low art' such as comics and serialised love stories -
Golden Age of Science Fiction
World War 2 throws the US into discord and the atomic bomb presents us with many existential implications, pushing in the 'Golden Age of Science Fiction' inspiring authors to come up with many new and unique ideas, questioning the ethics and futures of humanity. -
New Age of Science Fiction
Authors such as Philip K. Dick explore things like the advancement of technology as the societal inequalities of humanity start to get worse. Ursula K. Le Guin discusses the implications of the first genderless society, while the rise of video games, computers and the internet inspired the author Orson Scott Card to make future predictions of how the internet would shape the communication of the human race as warfare would become gamified. -
Under - represented societys
Authors such as Octavia E. Butler started writing science fiction novels exploring the term 'Afrofuturism', intending to highlight under-represented minorities in society