Tomy Willsher

The early Japanese tale of Urashima Tarō involves traveling forwards in time to a distant future, and was first described in the Nihongi (written in 720). It was about a young fisherman named Urashima Tarō who visits an undersea palace and stays there for three days. After returning home to his village, he finds himself 300 years in the future,

Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ɛrɛhwɒn/[2]) is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872,[3] set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.[4]

The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon are based on Butler's own

Animals

These images are often well-known Australian animals and birds, such as

• Australian feral camel

• Budgerigar

• Cassowary

• Saltwater crocodile

• Dingo

• Echidna

• Emu

• Frill-necked lizard

• Kangaroo

• Koala

• Kookaburra

• Numbat

• Platypus

• Quokka

• Rainbow lorikeet

• Sulphur-crested cockatoo

• Tasmanian devil

• Tasmanian tiger

• Wallaby

• Wombat

In 1960, British novelist Kingsley Amis published New Maps of Hell, a literary history and examination of the field of science fiction. This serious attention from a mainstream, acceptable writer did a great deal of good, eventually, for the reputation of science fiction.

Another milestone was the publication, in 1965, of Frank Herbert's Dune, a

According to Dr. Abu Shadi al-Roubi, the final two chapters of the Arabic theological novelFādil ibn Nātiq (c. 1270), also known as Theologus Autodidactus, by the Arabian polymath writer Ibn al-Nafis (1213–1288) can be described as science fiction. The theological novel deals with various science fiction elements such as spontaneous generation, fut

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

Australian culture is of primarily Western origins, and is derived from its British, Indigenous and migrant components.

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