Enrique Gaspar
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Enrique Lucio Eugenio Gaspar y Rimbau was a Spanish diplomat and writer, who wrote many plays, and one of the first novels involving time travel with a time machine, El anacronópete.
Enrique Gaspar
Cover of El anacronópete (1887).
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Science fiction is the genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic changes in technology, scientific knowledge, or biological systems. The elements common to science fiction hav
Enrique Gaspar
…1887 in Barcelona, El anacronópete (a neologism for "who flies against time") has become one of Gaspar y Rimbau's most important works. It is a Spanish science fiction novel. This predates the publication of The Chronic Argonauts by H. G. Wells in 1888, his first story involving time travel using a machine, but is six…
Cover of Imagination, an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine (1952)
Alien invasion featured in the novel The War of the Worlds (1897) by H. G. Wells, illustrated by Henrique Alvim Corrêa in 1906
The August 1923 issue of Science and Invention — the "Scientific Fiction number" — was the first issue of a Gernsback-published magazine to have significant fiction content.
Amazing stories, Sept. 1928. Hugo Gernsback coined the term "Scientiction" in 1916.