Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoScifi was created by neurodivergents and co-opted by normies.message-squaremessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down148
arrow-up121arrow-down1message-squareScifi was created by neurodivergents and co-opted by normies.Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down14·edit-21 day agoI don’t refer to mary shelly. I do not distinguish her as the “inventor” of science fiction either. Rendering strange ideas in terms of esoteric disciplines for the metaphorical augmentation or whatever is as old as humanity.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoOkay. So what’s the first work of science fiction to you?
minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·1 day agoIt’s something I haven’t delved into enough to arrive at a definitive conclusion, actually. The subject delivers little thrill for me.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoThen I suggest you accept the common interpretation that “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus”, is at least the first modern work of sci-fi.
minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-224 hours agoI can tell this means a lot to you. I suppose it’s a matter of taste.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·24 hours agoFair enough as a term, but it was one of my minors in college. Authors use both.
I don’t refer to mary shelly. I do not distinguish her as the “inventor” of science fiction either. Rendering strange ideas in terms of esoteric disciplines for the metaphorical augmentation or whatever is as old as humanity.
Okay. So what’s the first work of science fiction to you?
It’s something I haven’t delved into enough to arrive at a definitive conclusion, actually. The subject delivers little thrill for me.
Then I suggest you accept the common interpretation that “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus”, is at least the first modern work of sci-fi.
I can tell this means a lot to you. I suppose it’s a matter of taste.
Fair enough as a term, but it was one of my minors in college. Authors use both.