It would seem that the rather better known True History by Lucian of Samosata, which has survived, may have been a response to the work of Diogenes. That much is known, and no more the work is lost, we know of it only from asides in the work of others. It is known that, at some point during the second century CE a Greek writer, Antonius Diogenes, produced The Incredible Wonders Beyond Thule which apparently included a voyage to the Moon. It is possible that the origin of science fiction is lost. My contribution was way too long, but we hadn’t got around to the editing stage when the project collapsed, so this is my piece in all its wordy glory.

It reminded me of this piece which I wrote a few years back for a book that, in the end, never happened. I have just read, with great pleasure, the chapter on Early SF by Arthur Evans in Roger Luckhurst’s Science Fiction: A Literary History. Hudson, William Bullein, William Le Queux, William Morris Wodehouse, Richard Brinsley Peake, Richard Jefferies, Robert Hooke, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Paltrock, Roger Luckhurst, Saki, Samuel Barton, Samuel Gott, Samuel Hartlib, Samuel Madden, Thomas D'Urfey, Thomas Harriott, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Voltaire, W.H. Shiel, Margaret Cavendish, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Mary Webb, Nathaniel Hawthorne, P.G. Clarke, J-H Rosny aine, James Hogg, Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville, Johann Valentin Andreae, Johannes Kepler, John Polidori, John Wilkins, Jonathan Swift, Jules Verne, Karel Capek, Karl Marx, Kurd Lasswitz, Lewis Carroll, Louis-Sebastien Mercer, Lucian of Samosata, Ludvig Holberg, M.P. Wells, Henry Neville, Hugh Walpole, Humphrey Davy, I.F. Chesney, Gerrard Winstanley, Giacomo Casanova, Giordano Bruno, H.

Ellis, Elkanah Settle, Enrique Gaspar, Erasmus Darwin, Erskine Childers, Fieux de Mouhy, Fitz-James O'Brien, Francis Bacon, Francis Cheynell, Francis Godwin, Gabriel Daniel, Galileo Galilei, Garrett P. Adam Roberts, Albert Robida, Alfred Bate Richards, Antonius Diogenes, Aphra Behn, Arthur Evans, Athanasius Kircher, Ben Jonson, Brian Stableford, Camille Flammarion, Christian Huygens, Cyrano de Bergerac, Daniel Defoe, David Russen, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bellamy, Edward Everett Hale, Edward S.

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