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== History of Science Fiction ==

== History of Science Fiction ==

Science Fiction is a genre of art that deals with concepts of mankind set against the extra ordinary or the fantastic.  Magic space travel time travel aliens teleportation mind control dimensional travel and other things that are all totally at odds with what mankind "knows" in scientifically possible are used in many way to display ideas of the artist.

Science Fiction is a genre of art that deals with concepts of mankind set against the extra ordinary or the fantastic.  Magic space travel time travel aliens teleportation mind control dimensional travel and other things that are all totally at odds with what mankind "knows" is scientifically possible are used in many way to display ideas of the artist.

Modern science fiction as most people understand it today began in 1818 with the novel ''[[Frankenstein]], or the Modern Prometheus'' by [[Mary Shelley]], with various works by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] and [[Edgar Allen Poe]], and with the novel ''[[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde]]'' by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]. These works mainly were warnings to a brash mankind that some avenues of scientific investigation would be better left unexplored. The projects resulting from them, however much good they might promise, inevitably bring harm upon the investigator, those closest to him, and any number of innocent bystanders. This applies even to [[Jules Verne]] and his works (such as ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' and ''[[From the Earth to the Moon]]''), because the heroes in them almost always come to sad ends.

Modern science fiction as most people understand it today began in 1818 with the novel ''[[Frankenstein]], or the Modern Prometheus'' by [[Mary Shelley]], with various works by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] and [[Edgar Allen Poe]], and with the novel ''[[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde]]'' by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]. These works mainly were warnings to a brash mankind that some avenues of scientific investigation would be better left unexplored. The projects resulting from them, however much good they might promise, inevitably bring harm upon the investigator, those closest to him, and any number of innocent bystanders. This applies even to [[Jules Verne]] and his works (such as ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' and ''[[From the Earth to the Moon]]''), because the heroes in them almost always come to sad ends.