... as it is known today are Jules Verne, among his most famous books are "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" written in 1864 and "From the Earth to the Moon" written in 1873 and H.G. Wells, "The Time Machine: an invention" written in 1895 and "The War of the Worlds" written in 1898. The start of science fiction as a genre of its own, presumably took place in 1926 when ... " literature. During the period unsold science fiction magazines were used as weights in ships traveling from the United States to England. Only at the end of the 30's when the editor John W. Campbell Jr. demanded better ...

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