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ON THE WEB: ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

by Hazed

You might think that science fiction is a modern invention. After all, it's concerned with future technology, and without some kind of present-day technology to build on, how could any writer possibly imagine what might happen up ahead?

You must have heard of H G Wells, who is generally considered the first science fiction writer, but actually, if you look back a lot further, you can find the kind of visionary writers who look to the future and whose imaginations take them to strange and wonderful worlds.

Read this round-up of the writers of the past who wrote about the future: http://io9.com/5050642/the-roots-of-todays-science-fiction-go-back-centuries.

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