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Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein"
Age of enlightenment, the industrial revolution, gothic fiction, the concept of utopia, and man kind's great fall. now you have got the scene for a new modern genre which is considered its first prominent work, Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein". -
magazines and novels
By the mid-1920s magazines and novels are in vogue. It is at this time that science fiction becomes mainstream. Authors are now paid by the word and rewarded for quantity over quality. So now science fiction is now grouped with other low art like comic books and serialized romances. -
Golden age of science fiction
Now WWII comes along and the USA falls into a decades-long conflict with the USSR, and the atomic bomb comes with its own problems. and we also flew to the moon. all of this coincides with the golden age of science fiction, which brings out the most prominent authors like Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Issac Asimov, and George Orwell. -
next generation of authors
Phillip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Frank Herbert. the rise of personal computers, video games, and the beginnings of the internet inspire Orson Scott Card, he predicted how the internet would shape the discourse and gamification of warfare. then there is Michael Crichton who is often like a modern Mary Shelly and warns us about the used of irresponsible science. -
afrofuturism subgenre
authors including Octavia E. Butler, Rivers Solomon Nnedi Okorafor, N. K. Jomisin, and Ann Leckie write about having a colored protagonist (e.g black panther). now they are getting more and more mainstream attention.