I’ve yet to find what Americans called such stories. (See “ When Mainstream America Discovered Science Fiction.”)īefore that according to Brian Stableford in his 4-volume New Atlantis: A Narrative History of Scientific Romance, the French called stories like those written by Jules Verne roman scientifique, and the British called stories like those written by H. At first, Gernsback called the type of stories he wanted for his magazine scientifiction, but within a few years it was changed to science-fiction, and then to science fiction. The term science fiction applied as a unique category of fiction didn’t exist before Hugo Gernsback began publishing Amazing Stories in 1926, and even then it took a number of years to get the label we have today.
Ever since I’ve been reading 19th-century science fiction I’ve wondered what were the reactions to those stories by readers of the day.
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