It wasn’t really until the late 19th century that fiction begin to engage with scientific possibility. The French novelist ...

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Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big ...

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1. Never did it occur to me that I would ever be this closely associated with the world of literature, especially as I to this day feel no particular fondness for it. Many roads lead into the ...