Research Book - Post #3: 21-31

          Unlike what pop-culture likes to believe today, that science fiction literature was only a recent creation, the literary genre had actually been around since around 430 BC. Writings of that time collected more religious and fantasy elements into them than modern sci-fi. Today, they would seem to be fantasy works of literature. They were adventure-romances that integrated flight into the sky and space. Both were seen as the same thing. Space was an extension to the sky, and so it was thought possible for people to fly to the moon or sun. However, other objects in the sky were still thought of as perfect "heavenly bodies". One such example would be the stars, which you could not reach like the sun and moon. An early writer, Euripides was the first to creat stories of sci-fi, but he would never go farther than the sun and moon during his adventures into space. Restricting his stories to "arial exploration". The author Marcus Tullius on the other hand was the writer of the earliest surviving text of cosmic travel. He depicted seeing other stars that could to be seen from the Earth, and the Milky-way Galaxy as well. Moving further forward in time to around 120 AD, the author who was thought to be the first to write science fiction, Lucian, emerged. Said to be a father of science fiction, Lucian wrote stories of a more mystical sense than modern sci-fi. Ending the time of previous writers of romance-science fiction, he was the first to have famous works, such as the True History, and Ikaromennippos. From the very early beginning of science fiction until Lucian, not much changed. The science fiction of that time could be described more as mystical fiction, with some science added in.