Wellsian Influence on Science and Tchnology of the Late Victorian Era
“Science Fiction in Late Victorian England:The Wellsian Influence on Science and Technology” Intro: Science fiction as a genre was not referred to as such until 1926 and the publication of the magazine Amazing Tales even though the format dates back to Lucian the Greek historian and author. The works of the formative period of “Scientific Fiction” can be broken down into major camps. The most notable of these being the Utopian idealist who follow in the path of Moore; the Possible Futures, who contemplate the possibilities for scientific advances beyond the present scope; the Effects of Science, writing about contemporary science and its possibilities. Marc Agenot lays out a premise for the science fiction of Verne and Wells, who would be in the futures category, as “fiction about science in its global, historical effect, not in its scattering in specific discoveries.” Science Fiction has a reactionary and still developing definition, as science changes the fiction that comes out of it evolves. Some of the most compelling definitions of Science Fiction from Sam Moskowitz, Edmund Crispin and Kingsley Amis who each offer unique perspectives on the subject. The First definition is from Sam Moskowitz who is acknowledged as
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