Science Fiction timeline By Victor#@!@ Period: 1685 to 1815 Age of Enlightenment Period: 1730 to 1830 Industrial Revolution 1818 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Period: 1903 to 1950 George Orwell - Author of 1984 Period: 1907 to 1988 Robert A. Heinlein, Author of Starship Troopers and Stranger in a strange land 1920 Pulp magazines and novels on the rise Period: 1920 to 1992 Isaac Asimov - Author of I. Robot Period: 1920 to 2012 Ray Bradbur - Author of Fahrenheit 451 and Martian chronicles Period: 1920 to 1986 Frank Herbert - Author of Dunes Period: 1928 to 1982 Philip k. dick - Popularised Cyberpunk Period: 1942 to 2008 Michael Crichton - Author of Jarassic park Period: 1947 to 2006 Octavia e. butler - Author of Parable of the sower, Lilith's brood Period: 1951 to 2020 Orson Scott Card - Author of Ender's Game Period: 1964 to 2018 Ursula K Le Guin pens - Author of The Left Hand of Darkness Period: 1972 to 2020 N.K. jemisin Period: 1972 to 2020 Ann leckie Period: 1974 to 2020 Nnedi okorafor Period: 1989 to 2020 Rivers solomon 2020 The present