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Early SF would be a couple decades before Lem.
by int_19h 9mo ago
Early SF would be a couple decades before Lem.
- pfdietz 9mo agoOr more. The War of the Worlds was published half a century before Lem's first novel. And arguably SF goes back farther than that. Jules Verne in 1864. Frankenstein was published in 1818.
- int_19h 9mo agoYeah, I'm deliberately sticking to the time period when SF was recognized as a genre in its own right, distinct from others. Otherwise we might have to go back a few centuries, depending on one's definition of sci-fi!