In the late 1620s, nearly two centuries before Mary Shelley helped establish the genre of science fiction with her landmark novel Frankenstein (1818), an English bishop named Francis Godwin wrote a speculative tale about beings living on another world. Titled The Man in the Moone (1638), Godwin’s story is significant not only as a work of proto-sci-fi, but also because …
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