Still, no one reading Verne or Wells really expects the books to feel scientifically accurate. Wells are two names who loom large when we discuss the earliest science fiction novelists-or is it science fantasy? Hard to say…. Few would dispute, however, that Jules Verne and H.G. I’m all for crediting Mary Shelley with the first SF novel, though I‘m aware there are numerous earlier claimants to the looser “story” title. We could get into a rousing late-night discussion about the “first” science fiction stories. The more I read Heinlein, the more the experience becomes a reaction to how his writing is so old, but not quite old enough…. This edition has an afterword, two introductions to The Man Who Sold the Moon, as well as a preface from Heinlein. (In fact, it’s a double feature, with Orphans of the Sky as the second book. It just so happened that this paperback was on the New Books shelf at the library, so I snatched it up.
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