Dr Ro Smith on Nostr: Genuinely unsure if people on Tumblr keep saying Mary Shelley invented SF to taunt ...

Genuinely unsure if people on Tumblr keep saying Mary Shelley invented SF to taunt me. It's been over a decade since I debunked this in an essay ('Remembering Margaret Cavendish') that was later reprinted in an award-winning book https://serenitywomble.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/reviewing-through-the-time-machine-remembering-margaret-cavendish/

This is around the time I got sick, so it sometimes feels like the last moment I felt like I did something that mattered.

Anyway, The Blazing World is the first science fiction story. Frankenstein literally avoids including any science.