🎬 Modernist Science bridge 1900 to 1930Short bridge between Verne Wells and pulp Golden Age.Franz KafkaYevgeny Zamyatin: WeKarel Capek: RUROlaf Stapledon: Last and First Men, Star MakerAldous Huxley: Brave New WorldGeorge Orwell: 1984Feeds into Astounding and Golden Age.Jules VerneJules VerneJules Verne, photographed by NadarStream: 🔬 Science Adventure Era: 1860–1900Works written on the chart: Journey to Center of Earth · From Earth to Moon · Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Sea · Around World in 80 Days · Off on a CometThe chart marks Verne with a balloon icon at the head of the fat pink Science Adventure stream, running parallel to the tan Fantasy Adventure one.Wikipedia · [Portrait on Wikimedia Commons](File:Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Jules Verne (restoration).jpg)🌌 Roots — Wonder Myth and PhilosophyLeftmost roots of the chart. Speculative fiction starts as branching root-like streams, not one line.WONDER plus FEAR AND FOLKLOREPHILOSOPHY, ELEGANCE, ARTSUPERNATURAL plus FOLK CULTUREEarly utopias: Harrington Commonwealth of Oceana, Samuel Madden Memoirs of the 20th CenturySCIENCE root: Erasmus DarwinGoethe Faust feeds the ROMANTIC MOVEMENTFlows into: Enlightenment voyages and the Gothic.Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe, daguerreotype c. 1849Stream: 🦇 Gothic and Romantic, feeding detective fiction Era: 1830s–1840s on the chart's middle bandWorks written on the chart: Fall of House of Usher · Pit and Pendulum · Auguste Dupin (the detective arm)On the chart Poe sits where the Gothic reaches toward the detective story and the western, streams that later peel away from speculative fiction entirely.Wikipedia · Portrait on Wikimedia CommonsBram StokerBram StokerBram Stoker, photogravure by W. & D. DowneyStream: 🦇 Gothic, carried into the pulp era Era: 1897, at the pulp end of the GothicWorks written on the chart: DraculaStoker lands on the chart in the crowded lower band where penny dreadfuls and dime novels turn the Gothic into the pulp magazines.Wikipedia · Portrait on Wikimedia CommonsMary ShelleyMary ShelleyMary Shelley, by Richard RothwellStream: 🔬 Science meeting the Gothic Era: 1818–1826Works written on the chart: Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, marked on the chart as the first SF novel · The Last ManOn the chart she is the pink bubble where the Gothic Novel, Science and Fantasy Adventure meet — the point the whole science-fiction spine starts from.Wikipedia · [Portrait on Wikimedia Commons](File:Richard Rothwell (1800-1868) -Mary_Wollstonecraft_Shelley-NPG_1235-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg)Horace WalpoleHorace WalpoleHorace Walpole, after Joshua ReynoldsStream: 🦇 Gothic and Romantic Era: 1760–1840Works written on the chart: Castle of OtrantoShelley draws the Gothic Novel as the big teal pond in the middle of the page that later horror and fantasy streams drain out of. Walpole is at its head.Wikipedia · Portrait on Wikimedia Commons🚀 Astounding and Golden Age 1937 to 1960ASTOUNDING plus Golden Age. Science splits into SCIENCE DOMINANT and SOCIOLOGY DOMINANT.Science dominant:Isaac Asimov: FoundationArthur C Clarke: Rendezvous with Rama, Childhoods EndRobert Heinlein: Starship TroopersLarry Niven: Ringworld. Niven plus Pournelle: Mote in Gods Eye, Lucifers HammerAnderson: Tau Zero. Harrison: Bill the Galactic Hero. Vance: Last Castle. Leiber: Wanderer. Frederick Pohl: Gateway, Man Plus. Greg Bear: Eon. Gregory Benford. Carl Sagan: Contact. Michael Crichton: Andromeda Strain, Jurassic ParkFilm and TV: Day Earth Stood Still, Thing from Another World, Invaders from Mars, War of Worlds, Forbidden Planet, Godzilla, The Fly, Tales of Tomorrow, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Star Trek, 2001, Planet of ApesSociology dominant:Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicals as spelled on chart, Fahrenheit 451Alfred Bester: Stars My Destination, Demolished ManJames Blish: Case of Conscience, Cities in FlightFritz Leiber. Poul Anderson. Harry Harrison. Brackett: Long Tomorrow. Dickson: Dorsai and Childe Cycle, Genetic General. Frank Herbert: Dune. Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano, Slaughterhouse 5. Philip K Dick: Man in High Castle, Do Androids Dream. Ursula Le Guin: Left Hand of Darkness, Dispossessed, Earthsea. Harlan Ellison: Dangerous Visions. Delany: Einstein Intersection, Dhalgren. Zelazny: Lord of LightFilm: Them, Invasion of Body Snatchers, Blob, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Village of Damned, Day of Triffids, ETPerry Rhodan magazine spinoff.🐉 Tolkien — Sword plus Sorcery splits offThe fantasy fork that leaves SF and becomes its own genre.JRR TOLKIEN: THE HOBBIT, LORD OF THE RINGSCS Lewis: NarniaMervyn Peake: GormenghastL Sprague de Camp: Goblin Tower, New Conan storiesM Moorcock: Elric. Lin Carter: Wizard of Lemuria. Roger Zelazny: This ImmortalToward HARRY POTTERSword plus Sorcery labeled FANTASY GENRE on chart🔪 Modern Horror splits offGreen stream under Lovecraft circle.Publisher Arkham HouseRobert Bloch: PsychoShirley Jackson: Haunting of Hill HouseIra Levin: Rosemarys BabyAnne Rice, Stephen KingToward modern horror genre🌊 New Wave and Soft 1960s to 1970sNEW WAVE plus FORM DOMINANT plus SOFT.JG Ballard: Drowned World, Crystal WorldBrian Aldiss: Barefoot in the HeadThomas Disch: Camp ConcentrationJohn Brunner: Stand on ZanzibarNorman Spinrad: Bug Jack BarronMichael Moorcock editor of New WorldsPhilip K Dick continuation, Ursula Le Guin continuation, Delany, EllisonSoft and mainstream styles: Doris Lessing Memoirs of a Survivor, Marge Piercy Woman on Edge of Time, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood Handmaids Tale, Vonnegut continuationFilm: Fantastic Voyage, Alphaville, Fahrenheit 451, 2001 Space Odyssey, Barbarella, Planet of Apes, THX, Clockwork Orange, Soylent Green, Zardoz, Rollerball, Logan Run, Man Who Fell to Earth, Star Wars first spark🤖 Hard, Cyberpunk, New Space Opera 1980 to 2009Three late streams plus media flood.HARD:Larry Niven Ringworld continuation. Andromeda Strain. Gregory Benford. Greg Bear Eon and Blood Music. Isaac Asimov Foundation continuation. Carl Sagan Contact. Michael Crichton Jurassic Park. David Brin: Startide Rising, Uplift War. CJ Cherryh: Downbelow Station. L Ron Hubbard: Battlefield Earth. Orson Scott Card: Enders Game, Speaker for Dead. John Varley: Gaea trilogy. Joe Haldeman: Forever War. Douglas Adams: Hitchhikers Guide to GalaxyCYBER PUNK:William Gibson: Neuromancer, Burning Chrome. Bruce Sterling: Schismatrix. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Baroque Cycle. Pat Cadigan: Mindplayers. Walter Jon Williams. Difference Engine and steampunk. Islands in NetNEW SPACE OPERA:Vernor Vinge: Fire Upon Deep. Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars, Blue Mars. Iain M Banks: Player of Games, Use of Weapons. Stephen Baxter: Time Ships. Joe McDevitt: Seeker. Ken MacLeod. Charles Stross: Glasshouse. Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space. Lois McMaster Bujold: Vor Game. Connie Willis: Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of Dog. Michael Swanwick: Stations of Tide. David Brin: Kiln People. Ursula Le Guin continuation. Robert Charles Wilson: SpinSTAR WARS plus media flood: Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Return of Jedi, Alien Aliens, ET, Blade Runner Brazil Tron, Terminator Terminator 2, Robocop, Total Recall, Matrix, Fifth Element, Independence Day, Men in Black, Gattaca, Dark City, Starship Troopers, Contact, Armageddon, Deep Impact, X-Files, Star Trek Next Generation Voyager Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, X-Files, Stargate, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Futurama, Harry Potter, Lord of Rings films, Avatar toward futureQuote at bottom as written: SCIENCE FICTION DEALS WITH IMPROBABLE POSSIBILITIES FANTASY WITH PLAUSIBLE IMPOSSIBILITIES — Miriam Allen de Ford👾 Pulp Era — Weird Tales and Amazing 1900 to 1937Bram Stoker: DraculaWm Hope Hodgson: House on Borderland, The Night LandArthur Machen: Three ImpostersFrancis Stevens: Citadal of Fear as written on chartAmbrose Bierce: Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeLord Dunsany, L. Frank Baum: Wizard of Oz booksEdgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Land That Time Forgot, Pellucidar, At Earths CoreA. Merritt: Moon Pool, Metal MonsterWEIRD TALES magazine: Robert E Howard and Conan Barbarian, Clark Ashton Smith Lost Worlds, H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth Cthulhu MythosAMAZING STORIES: E.E. Doc Smith Skylark and Lensman seriesEarly film: first Frankenstein by Edison, Metropolis, King Kong, Things to Come, Flash GordonE.R. Eddison: Worm of Ouroboros, T.H. White: Sword in the StoneDetective: Sherlock Holmes toward Crime-Mystery. Westerns drop into hole.⚡ Mary Shelley — First SF Novel 1818 to 1826Pink bubble where Gothic plus Science plus Fantasy Adventure meet.MARY SHELLEY: FRANKENSTEIN OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS, labeled FIRST SF NOVEL on chartTHE LAST MAN, labeled first true SF on chartConnects back to: Erasmus Darwin and Science, English Romantics, Gothic Novel.🚂 Science versus Fantasy Adventure 1860 to 1900Two parallel fat streams.SCIENCE ADVENTURE in pink:JULES VERNE with balloon icon: Journey to Center of Earth, From Earth to Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Sea, Around World in 80 Days, Off on a CometEdward Ellis: Steam Man of PrairieEdward Everett Hale: Brick Moon. Robert Wm Cole: Struggle for EmpireFANTASY ADVENTURE in tan:H. Rider Haggard: King Solomons Mine, SheRobert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll plus Mr HydeWilkie Collins: MoonstoneS. Le Fanu: Through a Glass Darkly, Uncle SilasJ.M. Rymer: Varney the Vampyre, Sweeney ToddOscar Wilde: Dorian GrayVictor Hugo: Hunchback of Notre Dame. E Bronte Wuthering Heights. C Bronte Jane EyreEdgar Allan Poe: Fall of House of Usher, Pit and Pendulum, Auguste Dupin, toward DETECTIVE STORY and WESTERNSNew publishing media: Penny Dreadfuls, Dime Novels plus Magazines, toward PULP.🦇 Gothic and Romantic 1760 to 1840THE GOTHIC NOVEL — the big teal pond everything horror and fantasy drains out of.Horace Walpole: Castle of OtrantoAnn Radcliffe: Mysteries of Udolpho, The ItalianMatthew Lewis: The Monk, Castle SpectreWilliam Beckford: VathekRegina Maria Roche: Clermont, Children of the AbbeyChas. Brooke Brown: WielandJan Potocki: Manuscript Found in SaragossaThos. de Quincey: Confessions of an Opium EaterEnglish Romantic Poets: S. Coleridge Rime of Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron and the Byronic hero, Percy B. Shelley Prometheus UnboundThomas Love Peacock: MelincourtDr. Polidori: The VampyreGrimms Fairy TalesSir Walter Scott – HISTORICAL ROMANCE: Ivanhoe, toward Dumas Three Musketeers and Count of Monte CristoIn the Gothic Tradition: Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams.📜 Enlightenment Voyages 1600s to 1800Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Consolidator, World in the MoonLudvig Holberg: Underground Travels, Niels KlimL.S. Mercier: L'An 2440Cousin de Grainville: Le Dernier HommeWm. BilderdijkE.T.A. Hoffmann: The AutomateStream labels: SCIENCE, FANTASY ADVENTUREFlows into: Mary Shelley and Science Adventure.

📚 SF Authors — Research Tracker v2AuthorWorks on chartStreamEraResearch statusDaniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe; Consolidator; World in the Moon🔬 Science📜 Enlightenment9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Mary ShelleyFrankenstein or the Modern Prometheus; The Last Man🔬 Science⚡ First SF9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Jules VerneJourney to Center of Earth; From Earth to Moon; 20,000 Leagues Under Sea; Around World in 80 Days🚂 Science Adventure🚂 Adventure9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0H. G. Wellschart names Wells without a legible title list🔬 Science🚂 Adventure9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Bram StokerDracula🦇 Gothic👾 Pulp9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan; John Carter of Mars; Land That Time Forgot👾 Pulp👾 Pulp9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0H. P. LovecraftCthulhu Mythos🔪 Horror👾 Pulp9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Robert E. HowardConan Barbarian🐉 Fantasy👾 Pulp9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0E. E. Doc SmithSkylark; Lensman🚀 Space Opera👾 Pulp9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Franz Kafkachart names Kafka without a legible title list🎭 Modernist🎬 Modernist9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Aldous HuxleyBrave New World🎭 Modernist🎬 Modernist9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0George Orwell1984🎭 Modernist🎬 Modernist9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0J. R. R. TolkienThe Hobbit; Lord of the Rings🐉 Fantasy🐉 Fantasy split9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Isaac AsimovFoundation🔬 Hard SF🚀 Golden Age9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Arthur C. ClarkeRendezvous with Rama; Childhood's End🔬 Hard SF🚀 Golden Age9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Robert A. HeinleinStarship Troopers🔬 Hard SF🚀 Golden Age9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Ray BradburyMartian Chronicals; Fahrenheit 451🌐 Sociology🚀 Golden Age9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Philip K. DickMan in High Castle; Do Androids Dream🌐 Sociology🚀 Golden Age9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Frank HerbertDune🌐 Sociology🚀 Golden Age9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0Ursula K. Le GuinLeft Hand of Darkness; Dispossessed; Earthsea🌐 Sociology🚀 Golden Age9797b319-2572-4b61-a34d-519e5c23c1bd:col:5:opt:0
🎬 Modernist Science bridge 1900 to 1930Short bridge between Verne Wells and pulp Golden Age.Franz KafkaYevgeny Zamyatin: WeKarel Capek: RUROlaf Stapledon: Last and First Men, Star MakerAldous Huxley: Brave New WorldGeorge Orwell: 1984Feeds into Astounding and Golden Age.
Jules VerneJules VerneJules Verne, photographed by NadarStream: 🔬 Science Adventure Era: 1860–1900Works written on the chart: Journey to Center of Earth · From Earth to Moon · Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Sea · Around World in 80 Days · Off on a CometThe chart marks Verne with a balloon icon at the head of the fat pink Science Adventure stream, running parallel to the tan Fantasy Adventure one.Wikipedia · [Portrait on Wikimedia Commons](File:Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Jules Verne (restoration).jpg)
🌌 Roots — Wonder Myth and PhilosophyLeftmost roots of the chart. Speculative fiction starts as branching root-like streams, not one line.WONDER plus FEAR AND FOLKLOREPHILOSOPHY, ELEGANCE, ARTSUPERNATURAL plus FOLK CULTUREEarly utopias: Harrington Commonwealth of Oceana, Samuel Madden Memoirs of the 20th CenturySCIENCE root: Erasmus DarwinGoethe Faust feeds the ROMANTIC MOVEMENTFlows into: Enlightenment voyages and the Gothic.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe, daguerreotype c. 1849Stream: 🦇 Gothic and Romantic, feeding detective fiction Era: 1830s–1840s on the chart's middle bandWorks written on the chart: Fall of House of Usher · Pit and Pendulum · Auguste Dupin (the detective arm)On the chart Poe sits where the Gothic reaches toward the detective story and the western, streams that later peel away from speculative fiction entirely.Wikipedia · Portrait on Wikimedia Commons
Bram StokerBram StokerBram Stoker, photogravure by W. & D. DowneyStream: 🦇 Gothic, carried into the pulp era Era: 1897, at the pulp end of the GothicWorks written on the chart: DraculaStoker lands on the chart in the crowded lower band where penny dreadfuls and dime novels turn the Gothic into the pulp magazines.Wikipedia · Portrait on Wikimedia Commons
Mary ShelleyMary ShelleyMary Shelley, by Richard RothwellStream: 🔬 Science meeting the Gothic Era: 1818–1826Works written on the chart: Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, marked on the chart as the first SF novel · The Last ManOn the chart she is the pink bubble where the Gothic Novel, Science and Fantasy Adventure meet — the point the whole science-fiction spine starts from.Wikipedia · [Portrait on Wikimedia Commons](File:Richard Rothwell (1800-1868) -Mary_Wollstonecraft_Shelley-NPG_1235-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg)
Horace WalpoleHorace WalpoleHorace Walpole, after Joshua ReynoldsStream: 🦇 Gothic and Romantic Era: 1760–1840Works written on the chart: Castle of OtrantoShelley draws the Gothic Novel as the big teal pond in the middle of the page that later horror and fantasy streams drain out of. Walpole is at its head.Wikipedia · Portrait on Wikimedia Commons
🚀 Astounding and Golden Age 1937 to 1960ASTOUNDING plus Golden Age. Science splits into SCIENCE DOMINANT and SOCIOLOGY DOMINANT.Science dominant:Isaac Asimov: FoundationArthur C Clarke: Rendezvous with Rama, Childhoods EndRobert Heinlein: Starship TroopersLarry Niven: Ringworld. Niven plus Pournelle: Mote in Gods Eye, Lucifers HammerAnderson: Tau Zero. Harrison: Bill the Galactic Hero. Vance: Last Castle. Leiber: Wanderer. Frederick Pohl: Gateway, Man Plus. Greg Bear: Eon. Gregory Benford. Carl Sagan: Contact. Michael Crichton: Andromeda Strain, Jurassic ParkFilm and TV: Day Earth Stood Still, Thing from Another World, Invaders from Mars, War of Worlds, Forbidden Planet, Godzilla, The Fly, Tales of Tomorrow, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Star Trek, 2001, Planet of ApesSociology dominant:Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicals as spelled on chart, Fahrenheit 451Alfred Bester: Stars My Destination, Demolished ManJames Blish: Case of Conscience, Cities in FlightFritz Leiber. Poul Anderson. Harry Harrison. Brackett: Long Tomorrow. Dickson: Dorsai and Childe Cycle, Genetic General. Frank Herbert: Dune. Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano, Slaughterhouse 5. Philip K Dick: Man in High Castle, Do Androids Dream. Ursula Le Guin: Left Hand of Darkness, Dispossessed, Earthsea. Harlan Ellison: Dangerous Visions. Delany: Einstein Intersection, Dhalgren. Zelazny: Lord of LightFilm: Them, Invasion of Body Snatchers, Blob, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Village of Damned, Day of Triffids, ETPerry Rhodan magazine spinoff.
🐉 Tolkien — Sword plus Sorcery splits offThe fantasy fork that leaves SF and becomes its own genre.JRR TOLKIEN: THE HOBBIT, LORD OF THE RINGSCS Lewis: NarniaMervyn Peake: GormenghastL Sprague de Camp: Goblin Tower, New Conan storiesM Moorcock: Elric. Lin Carter: Wizard of Lemuria. Roger Zelazny: This ImmortalToward HARRY POTTERSword plus Sorcery labeled FANTASY GENRE on chart
🔪 Modern Horror splits offGreen stream under Lovecraft circle.Publisher Arkham HouseRobert Bloch: PsychoShirley Jackson: Haunting of Hill HouseIra Levin: Rosemarys BabyAnne Rice, Stephen KingToward modern horror genre
🌊 New Wave and Soft 1960s to 1970sNEW WAVE plus FORM DOMINANT plus SOFT.JG Ballard: Drowned World, Crystal WorldBrian Aldiss: Barefoot in the HeadThomas Disch: Camp ConcentrationJohn Brunner: Stand on ZanzibarNorman Spinrad: Bug Jack BarronMichael Moorcock editor of New WorldsPhilip K Dick continuation, Ursula Le Guin continuation, Delany, EllisonSoft and mainstream styles: Doris Lessing Memoirs of a Survivor, Marge Piercy Woman on Edge of Time, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood Handmaids Tale, Vonnegut continuationFilm: Fantastic Voyage, Alphaville, Fahrenheit 451, 2001 Space Odyssey, Barbarella, Planet of Apes, THX, Clockwork Orange, Soylent Green, Zardoz, Rollerball, Logan Run, Man Who Fell to Earth, Star Wars first spark
🤖 Hard, Cyberpunk, New Space Opera 1980 to 2009Three late streams plus media flood.HARD:Larry Niven Ringworld continuation. Andromeda Strain. Gregory Benford. Greg Bear Eon and Blood Music. Isaac Asimov Foundation continuation. Carl Sagan Contact. Michael Crichton Jurassic Park. David Brin: Startide Rising, Uplift War. CJ Cherryh: Downbelow Station. L Ron Hubbard: Battlefield Earth. Orson Scott Card: Enders Game, Speaker for Dead. John Varley: Gaea trilogy. Joe Haldeman: Forever War. Douglas Adams: Hitchhikers Guide to GalaxyCYBER PUNK:William Gibson: Neuromancer, Burning Chrome. Bruce Sterling: Schismatrix. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Baroque Cycle. Pat Cadigan: Mindplayers. Walter Jon Williams. Difference Engine and steampunk. Islands in NetNEW SPACE OPERA:Vernor Vinge: Fire Upon Deep. Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars, Blue Mars. Iain M Banks: Player of Games, Use of Weapons. Stephen Baxter: Time Ships. Joe McDevitt: Seeker. Ken MacLeod. Charles Stross: Glasshouse. Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space. Lois McMaster Bujold: Vor Game. Connie Willis: Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of Dog. Michael Swanwick: Stations of Tide. David Brin: Kiln People. Ursula Le Guin continuation. Robert Charles Wilson: SpinSTAR WARS plus media flood: Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Return of Jedi, Alien Aliens, ET, Blade Runner Brazil Tron, Terminator Terminator 2, Robocop, Total Recall, Matrix, Fifth Element, Independence Day, Men in Black, Gattaca, Dark City, Starship Troopers, Contact, Armageddon, Deep Impact, X-Files, Star Trek Next Generation Voyager Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, X-Files, Stargate, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Futurama, Harry Potter, Lord of Rings films, Avatar toward futureQuote at bottom as written: SCIENCE FICTION DEALS WITH IMPROBABLE POSSIBILITIES FANTASY WITH PLAUSIBLE IMPOSSIBILITIES — Miriam Allen de Ford
👾 Pulp Era — Weird Tales and Amazing 1900 to 1937Bram Stoker: DraculaWm Hope Hodgson: House on Borderland, The Night LandArthur Machen: Three ImpostersFrancis Stevens: Citadal of Fear as written on chartAmbrose Bierce: Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeLord Dunsany, L. Frank Baum: Wizard of Oz booksEdgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Land That Time Forgot, Pellucidar, At Earths CoreA. Merritt: Moon Pool, Metal MonsterWEIRD TALES magazine: Robert E Howard and Conan Barbarian, Clark Ashton Smith Lost Worlds, H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth Cthulhu MythosAMAZING STORIES: E.E. Doc Smith Skylark and Lensman seriesEarly film: first Frankenstein by Edison, Metropolis, King Kong, Things to Come, Flash GordonE.R. Eddison: Worm of Ouroboros, T.H. White: Sword in the StoneDetective: Sherlock Holmes toward Crime-Mystery. Westerns drop into hole.
⚡ Mary Shelley — First SF Novel 1818 to 1826Pink bubble where Gothic plus Science plus Fantasy Adventure meet.MARY SHELLEY: FRANKENSTEIN OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS, labeled FIRST SF NOVEL on chartTHE LAST MAN, labeled first true SF on chartConnects back to: Erasmus Darwin and Science, English Romantics, Gothic Novel.
🚂 Science versus Fantasy Adventure 1860 to 1900Two parallel fat streams.SCIENCE ADVENTURE in pink:JULES VERNE with balloon icon: Journey to Center of Earth, From Earth to Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Sea, Around World in 80 Days, Off on a CometEdward Ellis: Steam Man of PrairieEdward Everett Hale: Brick Moon. Robert Wm Cole: Struggle for EmpireFANTASY ADVENTURE in tan:H. Rider Haggard: King Solomons Mine, SheRobert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll plus Mr HydeWilkie Collins: MoonstoneS. Le Fanu: Through a Glass Darkly, Uncle SilasJ.M. Rymer: Varney the Vampyre, Sweeney ToddOscar Wilde: Dorian GrayVictor Hugo: Hunchback of Notre Dame. E Bronte Wuthering Heights. C Bronte Jane EyreEdgar Allan Poe: Fall of House of Usher, Pit and Pendulum, Auguste Dupin, toward DETECTIVE STORY and WESTERNSNew publishing media: Penny Dreadfuls, Dime Novels plus Magazines, toward PULP.
🦇 Gothic and Romantic 1760 to 1840THE GOTHIC NOVEL — the big teal pond everything horror and fantasy drains out of.Horace Walpole: Castle of OtrantoAnn Radcliffe: Mysteries of Udolpho, The ItalianMatthew Lewis: The Monk, Castle SpectreWilliam Beckford: VathekRegina Maria Roche: Clermont, Children of the AbbeyChas. Brooke Brown: WielandJan Potocki: Manuscript Found in SaragossaThos. de Quincey: Confessions of an Opium EaterEnglish Romantic Poets: S. Coleridge Rime of Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron and the Byronic hero, Percy B. Shelley Prometheus UnboundThomas Love Peacock: MelincourtDr. Polidori: The VampyreGrimms Fairy TalesSir Walter Scott – HISTORICAL ROMANCE: Ivanhoe, toward Dumas Three Musketeers and Count of Monte CristoIn the Gothic Tradition: Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams.
📜 Enlightenment Voyages 1600s to 1800Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Consolidator, World in the MoonLudvig Holberg: Underground Travels, Niels KlimL.S. Mercier: L'An 2440Cousin de Grainville: Le Dernier HommeWm. BilderdijkE.T.A. Hoffmann: The AutomateStream labels: SCIENCE, FANTASY ADVENTUREFlows into: Mary Shelley and Science Adventure.

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