Perhaps you’re new to SciFi or perhaps you’ve been reading SciFi for a few decades. Have you wondered when science fiction came about? For example: Did you know that this story telling genre about the future is quite old?
It’s the early 1800s and before Rudolf Diesel and Henry Ford. Electricity is still a lab experiment. But it doesn’t matter. We don’t need any of what those guys were selling. The true motors of Innovation are started with firing up a boiler, copper or brass tubing, and driving pistons of power.
It was the 1960s. Young science fiction readers and writers were tired of the usual space travel and adventure tales. They yearned to read something that used what was happening around them which was too edgy for the earlier fiction which tended to be cleaned up for young adult readers.
