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(2016) The history of science fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Seventeenth-century sf

Adam Roberts

pp. 51-83

Three individuals who never met stand, talismanically, at the gates of the new mode of writing we call science fiction: Copernicus, Bruno and Kepler. Indeed, the thesis of this present study might be articulated in shorthand form by the statement that modern science fiction "begins' in the year 1600.

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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8_4

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Roberts, A. (2016). Seventeenth-century sf, in The history of science fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 51-83.