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European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the age of enlightenment.
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The rapid industrial growth that began in England during the middle of the eighteenth century and then spread over the next 50 years to many other countries, including the United States.
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Shelley was partially inspired to write this from the a tale which a persons steals the forbidden knowledge from god and gives it to man kind.
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Science Fiction really begins to go mainstream, authors are paid by the word and rewarded for quantity over quality.
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The golden age is when the stories went beyond just being a niche for pulp publications and started becoming read more widely.