Science fiction is a genre of literature that is very hard to define because it varies drastically in themes. ... Science fiction is how the world one day may look and most of the time it is the worse case scenario, where technology plays an important role in society. ... Wells, "The Time Machine: an invention" written in 1895 and "The War of the Worlds" written in 1898. ... The first time they emerged was in Hugo Gernsback's magazine "Wonder Stories", after "Amazing Stories" had disappeared. ... Science fiction was seen as serious literature, perhaps because people thought that it c...

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