Lasers, Steam, and Chrome: The History of Science Fiction

<p>Who wrote the first ever science fiction novel? Why is Isaac Asimov hiding his middle initial? And which psychedelic author attempted to murder the most wives?</p> <p> </p> <p>In the latest MFFI episode, the boys answer all of the burning sci-fi-history questions you never cared enough to ask.</p> <p>~</p> <p>Join the MFFI community and vote on episode topics via <a href='https://discord.gg/4KUWbgj4PN'>DISCORD</a></p> <p>~</p> <p>In this episode:  </p> <ul><li>The Epic of Gilgamesh?</li> <li> <p class="p1">Johannes Kepler’s 1634 “Somnium” (The Dream)</p> </li> <li> <p class="p1">Mary Shelly and the Mad Scientist Trope</p> </li> <li>Frankenstein </li> <li>The Last Man</li> <li> <p class="p1">Roger Dodsworth: the Reanimated Englishman”</p> </li> <li>(Another) Last Man: “Le Dernier Homme” by Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin De Grainville </li> <li>“The Steam Man of the Prairies”</li> <li> <p class="p1">Johnny Brainerd, Ethan Hopkins and Mickey McSquizzle</p> </li> <li>Jules Verne and the <p class="p1">Extraordinary Voyages</p> </li> <li>HG Wells (Herbert George Wells)</li> <li>Samuel Butler’s “Erewhon”</li> <li> <p class="p1">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World</p> </li> <li> <p class="p1">The Futuristic Tales of Rudyard Kipling</p> </li> <li> <p class="p1">Edgar Allen Poe goes to the moon </p> </li> <li> <p class="p1">Edgar Rice Burroughs: Mars (Barsoom)</p> </li> <li>The Rise of the Pulps </li> <li>Amazing Stories</li> <li>Astounding Science Fiction</li> <li>The Big Three: <p class="p1">Robert A Heinlein, Arthur C Clark, and Isaac Yudovick Asimov</p> </li> <li>Rendezvous with Rama </li> <li>Stranger in a strange land</li> <li>Nightfall</li> <li>Ray Bradbury?</li> <li>Fritz Lang’s Metropolis </li> <li>Art Deco, Googie, the Jetsons</li> <li>The Pulp Films: It Came from Outer Space et al </li> <li>Science Fiction on Television: Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers</li> <li>The Impact of the Bomb: How Nuclear Weapons Shaped Sci Fi</li> <li>Kaiju, On the Beach</li> <li>Rich