Sci­ence fic­tion — before the cyber­punk split — was more or less dif­fer­ent retell­ings of the same arche­types where ali­ens replaced ghosts and mon­sters, space replaced the oceans and tech­no­logy replaced magic. This provided the grounds for sci­entific speculations, — and for a long time that was the main theme — and that was the fuel of the (tech­nical) ima­gin­a­tion of the man­kind. We reached the Moon in a story first in Kepler’s “Som­nium,” then with Jules Verne’s “From Earth to Moon.”

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