Science fiction years before 1810
The years before 1810 were the forerunners of science fiction literature. The first work in world literature that can be addressed as a science fiction novel is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , published in 1816 . But since the largely forgotten German author Julius von Voss published Ini, a novel with all the characteristics of later science fiction, as early as 1810 , the beginning of science fiction literature can be set for 1810, even if many of the works published after that were earlier than Utopias or Proto-SF must apply.
The forerunners also list some texts that move in the border area between fictional and discursive literature.
Events
- 1787–1789: Charles Garnier publishes Voyages imaginaires, songes, visions, et romans cabalistiques , a series of fantastic short stories by both French and English authors. 36 volumes were published by the outbreak of the French Revolution.
New publications literature
| year | German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | author | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd century | True stories | Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα | Lucian of Samosata | ||
| around 900 | Theologus Autodidactus ( Arabic الرسالة الكاملية في السيرة النبوية) | Ibn an-Nafis | |||
| 1516 | Utopia | 1524 | De optimo rei publicae statu deque nova Insula Utopia | Thomas More | utopian novel |
| 1555 | De Eudaemonensium Republica Commentariolus | Kaspar Stiblin | Utopia | ||
| 1619 | Christianopolis | Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio | Johann Valentin Andreae | Christian utopia | |
| 1623 | The sun state | La città del Sole | Tommaso Campanella | Political utopia wrote in 1602 | |
| 1627 | New Atlantis | Nova Atlantis | Francis Bacon | utopian novel | |
| 1634 | The dream | Somnium | Johannes Kepler | 1608 written description of a trip to the moon | |
| 1638 | The man in the Moon | The Man in the Moone | Francis Godwin | Description of a trip to the moon | |
| 1657 | The trip to the moon | Les États et Empires de la Lune | Cyrano de Bergerac | satirical novel, published posthumously | |
| 1662 | The journey to the lunar states and empires of the sun | Les États et Empires du Soleil | Cyrano de Bergerac | Fragment of a novel, published posthumously | |
| 1666 | The glittering world | 2001 | The Blazing World | Margaret Cavendish | |
| 1676 | La Terre australe connue | Gabriel de Foigny | utopian novel with the description of an island populated by hermaphrodites | ||
| 1686 | Dialogues across the majority of the worlds | 1789 | Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes | Bernard de Fontenelle | |
| 1692 | Voyage du monde de Descartes | Gabriel Daniel | Satire on the vortex theory of René Descartes in the form of an imaginary journey | ||
| 1698 | World viewers, or reasonable assumptions, that the planets are no less adorned and inhabited than our earth | 1767 | Cosmotheoros | Christiaan Huygens | Speculations about extraterrestrial life |
| 1726 | Gulliver's Travels | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | especially part 3 with the description of the flying island of Laputa | |
| 1731-1743 | Rock Castle Island | Johann Gottfried Schnabel | utopian novel in 4 volumes | ||
| 1741 | Niels Klim's underground journey | 1741 | Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum | Ludvig Holberg | satirical utopia |
| 1744 | The speed of travel on the Lufft ship to the upper world | Eberhard Christian Kindermann | |||
| 1750 | Relation du monde de Mercure | de Béthune | |||
| 1752 | Micromegas | 1752 | Micromégas | Voltaire | |
| 1765 | Voyages de Milord Céton dans les sept planettes, ou, Le nouveau mentor | Marie-Anne Robert | |||
| 1771 | The year 2440: a dream of all dreams | 1982 | L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais | Louis-Sébastien Mercier | |
| 1780 | Le Passage du Pôle Arctique au Pôle Antarctique par le center du Monde | [anonymous] | Fantastic journey from the north to the south pole through the interior of the earth | ||
| 1781 | La Découverte australe by un homme volant, ou Le Dédale français | Restif de la Bretonne | utopian novel | ||
| 1800 | Garlands around The Urns of the Future: An Interesting, Original Family Story from the Third and Twentieth Centuries | AK Ruh | probably the pseudonym of Johann Joseph Polt | ||
| 1805 | The last man | 2015 | Le Dernier Homme | Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Grainville | post apocalyptic novel |
Born
1571
- Johannes Kepler († 1630)
1686
- Johann Friedrich Bachstrom († 1742)
1740
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier († 1814)
1752
- Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht († 1814)
1756
- Carl Ignaz Geiger († 1791)
1759
- Wilhelm Friedrich von Meyern († 1829)
1762
- Theophil Friedrich Ehrmann († 1811)
1768
- Julius von Voss († 1832)
1775
- George Tucker († 1861)
1776
- ETA Hoffmann († 1822)
1794
- Jacques Collin de Plancy († 1881)
1806
- Émile Souvestre († 1854)
1809
- Edgar Allan Poe († 1849)
Died
1630
- Johannes Kepler (* 1571)
1742
- Johann Friedrich Bachstrom (* 1686)
1791
- Carl Ignaz Geiger (* 1756)
literature
- Brian M. Stableford : Science fiction before the genre . In: Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn: The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-81626-2 , pp. 15-31.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Brian M. Stableford: Science fiction before the genre . In: The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. 2003, p. 17.
- ↑ A German translation of an epic adaptation by Auguste Creuzé de Lesser by Christian Friedrich Karl Schirlitz appeared in 1833 under the title The Last Man, an epic in ten songs based on Grainville .
- ↑ s: de: Carl Ignaz Geiger