Proto Sci Fi: Foundational Speculative Fiction from the two millennia before the genre was born (100CE-1927)

In the millennia before the term 'science fiction' appeared in 1851 or Hugo Gernsback popularized the term in 1929, storytellers were already gazing at the moon and wondering who might live there, and what other wonders and terrors the universe might hold. They imagined voyages to other worlds, encounters with alien intelligences, utopian futures, and experiments that pushed human knowledge too far.

Proto Sci Fi gathers the earliest, most visionary examples of the genre ina two-thousand-yea...