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700
Urashima Taro
This is a time-travelling Japenese fairy tale from the 8th century -
700
1001 Arabian nights
(Speculated to be from the 8th century) -
Age of enlightenment
18th-century philosophical movement that elevated reason and empirical observation as the nexus for human knowledge rather than religious doctrine and monarchy. -
Industrial Revolution
A period of innovation that brought so many new watershed technological changes to the world, like the steam engine. -
Birth of the new modern genre
The industrial revolution added with the new romance subgenre Gothic fiction added with the concepts of utopia and mankind great fall you've got the scene for the birth of the new modern genre. -
First novel in this genre (Frankenstein)
The new genres first prominent work is widely considered to be Mary Shelly's novel, 'Frankenstein.' -
Emergence of Sci-Fi's Seminal authors
H.G Wells and Jules Verne were the two most recognised sci-fi authors of the time. -
WWII
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Golden-age of Sci-Fi
Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov and George Orwell are the prominent authors of the time. -
'The next generation' of Sci-Fi
Phillip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin and Frank Herbert were prominent authors of this time.