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Taking the whole busy 19th century in overview, we can see a number of broad fascinations working their way through the SF writing: an increased interest
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Roberts, A. (2016). Early 19th-Century SF. In: The History of Science Fiction. Palgrave Histories of Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8_6
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