[Ads-l] Has the Earliest Modern Usage of the Term "Science Fiction" Gotten Any Attention from Science Fiction Historians?

[dave at WILTON.NET]

The genre predates the term.

There are various claims to the "first" science fiction novel. Notable among them are:

Margaret Cavendish's 1666 "The Blazing World"
Mary Shelley's 1818 "Frankenstein"

Cavendish's work might not be considered a novel, but it's clearly within the realm of what we know call "science fiction."

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Does that make Etidorhpa nominally the first science fiction novel? I read that in high school around 1980.




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