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In the 1700s, a philosophical movement that elevated reason and empirical observation as the nexus for human knowledge.
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A period of innovation that brought many watershed technological changes to the world, like steam engines.
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Science fiction's first prominent work, Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, "Frankenstein".
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By the the mid to late 1800s, we see the emergence of two science fiction's seminal authors, HG Wells who takes on stories based on morality and Jules Verne who pioneered the adventure-driven romantic sci-fi opera.
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By the mid 1920s, pulp magazines and novels are the current style and authors are paid by the word and rewarded for quantity over quality.
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Coinciding with the events of WWII, science fiction entered its golden age when prominent authors, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Issac Asimov and George Orwell.
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Philip K Dick popularised the sub genre cyberpunk, Ursula K LeGuin pens one of the first mainstream sci-fi books to explore a genderless society and Frank Herbert gaves us "Dune" and memes.
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The rise of personal computers, video games and the very beginning of the internet inspires Orson Scott Card to write the "Ender's Game" series predicting how the internet would shape the discourse and the gamification of war.
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A commercial sci-fi writer reads and warns of the dangers of irresponsible science.
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Octavia E. Butler. seminal to the afrofuturism sub genre and people of color get more mainstream attention.