The Man Who Introduced A Novel About Aliens, UFOs, and Robots to Society in the 2nd Century
April 8, 2021 Shutterstock. Nearly two millennia before Jules Verne and H. G. Wells started writing about science fiction, Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian satirist, and rhetorician, introduced the world to science fiction, envisioning a future where humankind would find alien life, take place in interplanetary warfare, and come to know artificial life among other …