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An 18th century philosophical movement that elevated reason and empirical observation as the nexus for human knowledge
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a period of innovation that brought so many watershed technological changes to the world like steam engines and smog. There was a birth of a new modern genre to shelleys novel "Frankenstine"
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Jules Verne most famous works were dashing adventures that send us beyond the world before actual science had yet to catch up, meanwhile HG Wells novels take more of a moralizing tone
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Authors are rewarded of quality and not quantity. Science fiction was grouped with low arts like comic books and serialized romances, but then WW2 comes along and the era becomes a golden age of science fiction
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Authors start writing about their assumptions or possibilities of what the future holds for them and what happens to the society with technology as well as other ideas.