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The age of enlightenment
An 18th century philosophical movement that elevated reason and empirical observation as the nexus for human knowledge -
Industrial Revolution(Mary)
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" -
2 of science fictions seminal authors
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 -
Science Fiction starts going mainstream
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 -
the future
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.