Some people think the first science fiction book was:
a. A Princess of Mars (1912) by Edgar Rice Burroughs in which the protagonist John Carter, after being teleported to Mars, battles his way across a planet filled with villains and ultimately wins the hand of Princess Deiah Tjoris.
b. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—a book that warned about tampering with science and the unknown.
c. an excellent source of information on science fiction, Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (magazine) and Locus online which features the comprehensive Locus index to science fiction awards.
d. H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895) in which time travel was firmly established as a convention in science
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