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200
A True Story was written by Lucian of Samosata
A True Story was written by Lucian of Samosata, contains a number of SF elements, like travel in space, alien life forms, interplanetary colonization and war, artificial atmosphere, telescopes, and artificial life forms. -
900
Arabian Nights
One Thousand and One Nights, also known as Arabian Nights, is a compilation of tales written around the 8th-10th centuries CE. This collation happened during the Middle Ages, within the Muslim world, using Western and Southern Asian and North African folk tales. -
1000
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is considered proto-science fiction.[1] In the story, an old man finds a beautiful baby girl. When she grew to be a young woman, she told her adoptive parents she was not of this world and must return to her people on the Moon. -
1300
Urashima Tarō
Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎) is the hero of a Japanese fantasy (otogi banashi), who in a regular present day variant is an angler remunerated for protecting a turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) underneath the ocean. There he is engaged by the princess Otohime as a prize. He spends what he accepts to be a few days with the princess, however when he comes back to his home town, he finds he has been away for in any event 100 years. -
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Dr. Victor Frankenstein tries to destroy the monster he creates but it escapes. Things go back to normal, but then, the creature returns and asks the doctor for one of two things: a bride or revenge. -
H.G Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games.