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Old 02-08-2008, 12:04 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by carandol View Post
Alright, here's a factoid for you...

SF writer Brian Aldiss has argued that the first real science fiction novel was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, because it was based on the cutting edge science of the day, at a time when science had really only just been invented.
Nope. A much earlier SF novel was The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri.
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