"History of Science Fiction"

The term science fiction, according to the Sandya Maulana Aldiss (2010: 15) was first used in the short story magazine Amazing Stories, edited by Hugo Gernsback and was first published in 1926. Before the term science fiction is used, the actual works of science fiction have appeared previously. Exploiting the tendency of science or science as the dominant element in the narrative building is considered a work of fiction appeared since the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published in 1818.
Far Before that, in the Muslim world, Ibn Thufail (1106-1185) through his work, Hayy Ibn Yaqzhan have successfully integrated description of anatomy, astronomy and philosophy of Islam as instinct, intuition and pure reason by Hayy figures. Many people who admired literature as a literary work of high value and not a few thinkers who put the work in Ibn framework. Thufail. (Mahayana, 2007: 343)
Then in the 19th century, precisely in 1873 appeared a French author named Jules Verne. His novel titled Around the World in 80 days that have been translated into Indonesian by title Eighty Days Around the World deemed to have shocked the world. And hence Jules Verne then regarded as the father of science fiction world.
In addition there is also a writer Jules Verne world famouswith their science fiction, including H. G. Wells book The Time Machine (1895), J. Wyndham with The Day of the Triffids (1951) and Ray Bradburry the book Fahrenheit 451 (1953). (Rampan, 1999: 219)
Despite a lot of science fiction emerged in the 19th century, but the golden age of science fiction or science fiction new golden age occurred in the 1930s and 1940s (Maulana, 2010: 17). At that time, science fiction has become a popular realm filled with optimism towards the achievement of science in the future and increase knowledge of science fiction readers about science phenomena. Thus the development of science fiction is in line with Gernsback's vision when he started publishing the magazine Amazing Stories-to encourage young people with enthusiasm for research and scientific achievements.
In the 1980s until well into the twenty-first century, science fiction undergo other changes in its development. This change is characterized by the rapid advances in technology media. Magazine science fiction is now fully replaced by the publication of books (novels) science fiction. Nevertheless, the ideas of science fiction is now no longer spread through books, but through other media, such as comics, movies, television, and video games.
Science fiction is now not only thrive in the West (America, Britain, France, etc) but in Asia also are emerging bergenri prose science fiction. The question is, how the development of science fiction in Indonesia?
Science fiction is one genre of prose fiction which recently started to get the attention of readers of literary homeland. The emergence of science fiction in Indonesia is not long. Considered science fiction first appeared in Indonesia is Djokolelono work titled Falling into the Sun which was published in 1976. (Maulana, 2010: 15)

However, the reverberations of the science fiction novel sounded in Indonesia since the birth of the novel Supernova works Dee (Dewi Lestari), published in 2001. Dee and Djokolelono addition there are still many authors who have published prose science fiction in the country. We will discuss this in a special discussion in the next chapter.
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