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Maria’s Transformation from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
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Shooting Off Into Space
Once upon a time — it was 1866 — Jules Verne wrote an adventure story in which a group of Americans build a large cannon to shoot the first men to the Moon.
Later, Sir Isaac Newton developed a thought experiment that placed a cannon on a very high mountain that, with the right amount of [...]
The Industrial Revolution’s Role in the Development of SF
In The Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells, James Gunn put forth the idea that the Industrial Revolution sparked the change that needed to happen before science fiction could become a true genre. He wrote that people
“had to adopt an open mind about the nature of the universe — its beginning and [...]
