Science Fiction

Habitues of SF would respond to these two passages from Lucian’s True History as if they revealed the kinds of clichés that have made the genre notorious. The first, wittily describing men seduced, then incorporated, by an alien life-form, would fall naturally enough under the rubric "First Encounter." The second might be equally familiar as a

Ancient Indian poetry such as the Hindu epic the Ramayana (5th to 4th century BCE) includes Vimana, flying machines able to travel into space or under water, and destroy entire cities using advanced weapons.

However, the lack of explicit science or technology in the work has led some to argue that it is better categorized as fantastic literature.

Gilgamesh is a King of Uruk, thought to have lived between 2800 and 2500 BCE in Mesopotamia. In a nutshell, the epic is about the fear of death; it examines our longing for immortality through a man’s heroic struggles, both for self-renown and to gain eternal life. It also examines the desperation ensuing when he realises the futility of his quest

We have the supporters of ancient fantastical works (such as The Epic of Gilgamesh 2100-2000 BCE). On the other, those who say that you cannot have Science Fiction before the Scientific Revolution and therefore putting emphasis on the 16th up to the early 19th century, followed by the boom of the 20th century, created by a culture that saw a deeper