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Science Fiction and the First Contact Narratives
The utopians tend to name themselves after inventors, explorers and literary figures. voltaire has a short story called micromagas in which an alien from saturn and an alien from a star near sirius come to earth. Is it the first real work of science fiction? Depends on how you define science fiction. But i do want to argue, everybody's histories of science fiction should start with voltaire.