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[–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Some would say that was Margaret Cavendish, 150 years earlier. Mary Shelly’s novels are and have been more popular though.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    I'm going to have to read The Blazing World now. I'm surprised I haven't heard of it.

    Well, if you include Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1666), you would have to put Johannes Kepler's Somnium (1634) and Lucian of Samosata's A True Story (2nd century AD) ahead of her.

    I've listened to "A True Story" years ago but can't remember any of it. Reading the synopses, I think all three are closer to fantasy than Sci-Fi. So I still Put Frankenstein as the first true Sci-Fi book.

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