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September 20, 2015

Erika Harlitz-Kern

Cyrano de Bergerac, Dante Alighieri, Francis Godwin, H.G. Wells, Johannes Kepler, Jules Verne, Lucian of Samosata, Ludovico Ariosto, Mary Shelley, Science fiction, Somnium, The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon, The Divine Comedy, The Frenzy of Orlando, The Man in the Moone

In Search of the First Science Fiction Novel

On August 18, 2015, I published the following post at Quirk Books.

In Search of the First Science Fiction Novel

Name-checking of early science fiction authors usually includes Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, and Jules Verne who all wrote during the nineteenth century. But could the origins of Science Fiction go much further back than that? And how far back? We take a look at the various titles that may have a claim to being the first Science Fiction novel.

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In the words of my friend, the Australian, I shall return.

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Erika Harlitz-Kern

Erika Harlitz-Kern is a freelance writer, historian, and instructor at Florida International University. She has been published by The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, and The Week, among others, and has appeared on The Story of God with Morgan Freeman. She his currently working on a book about the Devil’s Bible.

In Search of the First Science Fiction Novel

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