Sometimes We Forget About Our Humble Beginnings

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We often think of Science Fiction as alien spaceships and deep-space adventures but as a genre, science fiction has existed long before that and really represent “imaginative literature.” Did you know that Mark Twain wrote some science fiction?

A recent event outside of Boston, Readercon, sought to both explore this and pay homage to the humble beginnings of such a worthwhile genre.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/07/readercon-science-fiction-as-it-was-born.ht...