With this, the popularity of the genre only skyrocketed throughout the 1800-1900's, dozens of writing journals began to publish science-fiction stories, as well as thousands upon thousands of books were being written. All this popularity was demanding even more outlets to handle all the creative overflow, and it found it in the newly evolving media of film. With the release of Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis, science fiction would be intertwined with film forever. Besides all the technical innovations for how movies are made, not too much has changed with the genre since then, but that by no means means that it has lost any popularity. Some of the biggest works of science fiction today are movies like Star Wars, Star Trek, Transformers, Dune, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. While science-fiction was becoming popular, fantasy was creating a history of its own.
The history of fantasy, while just as rich and dating even farther back than science fiction, is much harder to discern. This is because fantasy has been with storytelling from the very beginning, from ancient legends of gods and wizards told in every society from which we have records. The genre of Fantasy as we know it today is less than two hundred years old. Up through the early twentieth century, novels, even if they had fantasy elements, were still regarded as fairy tales. Popular stories such as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz show that in the time that they were written fantasy was much more accepted as children's literature and wasn't necessarily acceptable to be written for adults. But some mature fantasy literature was able to come to light during the twentieth century, mostly through "pulp " magazines " fiction magazines that were printed very cheaply. These magazines began the careers of such noted fantasy authors such as Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, and H.P. Lovecraft. Yet the term fantasy was not fully adopted until about the time one of the genre's greatest works came out, written by arguably the best fantasy writer of all time, J.
