Like her titular protagonist , when Mary Shelley publishedFrankensteinin 1818 , she know not what she had wrought into the public . Her fib of science taken too far birthed what many consider the firstscience fictionnovel … and what some do n’t . As it turns out , there are several tales enjoin before the 19th 100 that could also be considered sci - fi stories about aliens , starship , clock time travel , and more . Here ’s a ( non - thorough ) list of proto - scientific discipline fabrication written when scientific discipline itself was practically fiction .
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F. H. van Hove’s frontispiece for a 1687 edition of Cyrano de Bergerac’s Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon.Image: Public Domain
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