That term “science fiction” didn’t become widely known outside of the genre until the late 1940s and early 1950s. Gernsback first called these stories scientifiction, but within a few years coined the term science fiction. Many within the genre consider science fiction originating with Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories, first published in April 1926. Forster who lived until 1970 ever know this? When did science fiction fans first discover “The Machine Stops” and claim it for the science fiction genre? And did E. However, both stories had all the trappings of science fiction.Ī Modern Utopia is seldom remembered by science fiction fans, but “The Machine Stops” is considered one of the classics of the genre, and often reprinted in retrospective anthologies of science fiction short stories. Neither writer thought they were writing science fiction because, first, the term did not yet exist, and second, because Wells was promoting scientific socialism and Forster was protesting it. Wells novel, A Modern Utopia serialized in the Fortnightly Review in 19. It is a dystopian tale about a future society run by a machine. Forster’s story “The Machine Stops” was published in the November issue of The Oxford and Cambridge Review.
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