Timeline for First work where a traveler from afar arrives to a backward society and he tries to help its scientific progress
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| Sep 4, 2020 at 9:29 | comment | added | Ginasius | @Ethan I have decided to accept Mark Twain's answer because I read the Greek play and it is not "science fiction and fantasy" enough, but your answer is quite clever and provides an interesting point of view. Thanks a lot for that. | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 10:38 | comment | added | Ginasius | I'm undecided about which of the two most voted answers I should accept. "Connecticut Yankee" is a completely correct answer that meets all the requirements. "Prometheus" is obviously an older work but I'm not sure if it qualifies. I'm going to read "Prometheus Bound" just to be sure. I beg for a few days of patience. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 17:13 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | @J... That's why we don't have a firm policy and try to rely on common sense. scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10186/… | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 16:26 | comment | added | J... | @FuzzyBoots What's wrong with that? If people are free to present a story as fact with no supporting evidence then I think it's equally fair to have the freedom to point out the lack of evidence. Everyone's beliefs are fantasy except to the people who believe them. That's why we call them 'beliefs' and not 'facts'. | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 23:34 | comment | added | Mark | @FuzzyBoots, the problem is that many "first of" questions turn out to have a first example in religion or mythology. I see nothing wrong with pointing out that a common science-fiction or fantasy trope has roots somewhere else. | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 17:40 | comment | added | chepner | Hesiod's Theogony also includes this story, pushing the date back to 700 BC or earlier. (Though perhaps that is what you are alluding to with the reference to 2800 years.) | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 12:28 | history | edited | Null♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2020 at 11:31 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | And after rereading the meta discussion on the topic, you have my upvote for citing the piece of fiction based off of the mythology. | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 10:41 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | {raises his hands on surrender} It's something that comes up occasionally. I didn't downvote on this one but I figured it was worth mentioning. | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 7:20 | history | edited | Ethan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2020 at 2:54 | comment | added | Ethan | Surely a stage play by Aeschylus is something different from a religious text? | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 1:55 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | Traditionally, we steer away from answers involving mythology or religious texts because it could imply that we find someone's beliefs to be fantasy. | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 1:50 | history | answered | Ethan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |