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Exploring Johannes Kepler's 'Somnium', the first science fiction story
- IsaacL 11y agoAn even older science fiction story from ancient Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_History
- coldtea 11y agoRome? It's the Roman times, alright, but it's by Lucian who was an Assyrian / Greek author (the Mark Twain of his day). (He was born in the area of the so-called "hellenistic kingdoms", where Greek culture had been established for several centuries after Alexander).
- ashark 11y agoHephaestus has robot servants in The Iliad. And self-driving cars. (kind of)
- jlcx 11y agoA little bit later, there's this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World