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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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What about War of the Worlds? That was published in 1898. Are you saying the book where aliens invade from Mars and then die because of their inability to tolerate our microbial biome isn't science fiction?
EDIT: or what about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? That's 1870.
EDIT: shit, what about The Last Man?
that's the most sci-fi sounding gd thing tho
In the 2nd century some guy wrote about travelling to the moon...
Where he found Moon people who were at war with the sun people.
By your definition, isn't that also SciFi?
Sounds like it.
It's been a long journey since:
But I'm glad you understand now.
Like, I think your conception of science fiction is very specific, and that's fine. I'm guessing you really love sci-fi and feel strongly about it, and you think this shit is just weird af. The general consensus is that Frankenstein is the first novel to really be considered science fiction and not, say, proto sci-fi, and there are plenty of reasons why people think that which you can read about if you care to. I personally feel like Frankenstein is science fiction because it explicitly uses a contemporary understanding of science and the modern scientific method to tell a story about something that had previously been entirely supernatural—the creation of new life. You have your reasons for disagreeing with that. I don't know what those are, but you've got them and clearly feel pretty strongly about them.
Seems like you got pissy.
I used Shelly dude to the prominence of her being called "the first sci-fi author" as an example as to why it wasn't created by poor meth heads.
YOU took issue with that.
What are you trying to prove?
What I just quoted and you just agreed with...
I'm not sure why you're upset with me, now that we're on the same page...
We're not. And my point has always been your initial comment in this thread is false at best.