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  • The possible beginnings of science ficture writing and media that started it all.

    Literature
    blueball graphic 1726: Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
    blueball graphic 1818: Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
    blueball graphic 1865: Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon
    blueball graphic 1870: Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    blueball graphic 1895: H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
    blueball graphic 1898: H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds
    blueball graphic 1929: Publisher Hugo Gernsback first used the term "science fiction."
    blueball graphic 1930: The Astounding Stories magazine first introduced
    blueball graphic 1932: Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
    blueball graphic 1950: Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
    blueball graphic 1951: Isaac Asimov - Foundation
    blueball graphic 1965: Frank Herbert - Dune
    blueball graphic 1992: Kim Stanley Robinso - Red Mars
    blueball graphic 2004: David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas

    Movies
    blueball graphic A Trip to the Moon - 1902
    blueball graphic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - 1907
    blueball graphic Long Distance Wireless Photography - 1908
    blueball graphic A Trip to Jupiter - 1909
    blueball graphic The Invisible Thief - 1909
    blueball graphic Excursion to the Moon - 1908
    blueball graphic 1977: George Lucas' Star Wars makes debut