
Early Science Fiction: Lunar Geese and Blazing Worlds
We often think of science fiction as a particularly modern genre of storytelling, born of the science and technology of the electronic and digital age. But speculative fiction goes back centuries, back to the beginning of what we now call the Scientific Revolution of the 1600s. On today's show, we look at two of the foundational books in the genre: Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moon and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World. May the Force be with us!
Links to Texts:
The Man in the Moon: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46591/pg46591-images.html
The Blazing World: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51783/pg51783-images.html
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