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The Writing Styles of 2 Prominent British Science Fiction Authors"Science fiction is genius of the more secluded parade grounds where privatefantasy and public event meet. They call it entertainment". (Aldiss Billion 1)This quote is interpreted to mean that, in the genre of science fiction there isa fusion of fantasy and reality. It is this combination of two opposites thatproduces the novel categorized today as science fiction. There is one aspect ofscience fiction that separates it from any other genre. Science fiction can bewritten as fantasy one day, and read as scientific fact the next. Jules Vernehas written about man setting foot on the moon. When read by its originalreaders the idea of space travel was non a reality. It is now common knowledgethat man has walked on the moon, and when this novel is read today no longer isspace travel considered to be imaginary. expert science fiction novelistsbrilliantly blend fantasy with reality, composing a very fine line betw een thetwo perceptions. When reading, one sometimes does non even realize when theauthor makes the transition from a plausible concept to a ludicrous one.Science fiction is a relatively new status. Novels were prime(prenominal) categorized thisway towards the close of the 1920s. This word was first utilized in shortstories that appeared in the pulp magazines, of the era. The phrase "sciencefiction" was considered an enhancement of the term scientifiction. Howeverseveral British novels were categorized as scientific romances before the 1920s.(Aldiss Trillion 27) Before Frankenstein the only forms of science fiction were"the plays of Aristophanes or some Myrenaean instalment concerning the flight tothe sun on a gooses back." (Aldiss Billion 2) In these fantasies there is noblend of reality and fantasy, it is pure fantasy. There is no one taradiddle thatis accepted to be the first science fiction tale. Science fiction as perceivedtoday originated with Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. (Aldiss Trillion 18)     Mary Shelley was the wife of the renowned British poet, Percy ByssheShelley and daughter of Mary Wollenstonecraft. She was born in 1797 and hermother died soon after birth. Mary Wollenstonecraft married her husband at theage of fifteen. She produced her most historied novel entitled Frankenstein at theage of nineteen. It was published in 1818. (Ash 178)     The origin of the novel came to Shelley in a dream, in which she saysshe saw "the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the workingof some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy half vital