Timeline for Was War of the Worlds the first science fiction to discuss bacteria/viruses?
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 15:18 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 30, 2021 at 21:43 | vote | accept | releseabe | ||
| Nov 16, 2021 at 23:49 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | Wow! I knew that several real-world things today were originally dreamed up in science fiction long before they became plausible science, but I didn't know gain-of-function was one of them! | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 12:20 | comment | added | tbrookside | It's funny that the work of Pasteur and Koch didn't really drive out the miasma theory until the early 1880's, so this would have been pretty cutting-edge science fiction at the time. | |
| Nov 12, 2021 at 21:31 | comment | added | Spencer | How did you even search for this. | |
| Nov 12, 2021 at 21:21 | comment | added | releseabe | Never heard of the story or the writer. Remarkable concept for 1892 and perhaps that is indeed the first science fiction story to deal with "germs." | |
| Nov 12, 2021 at 21:05 | history | answered | DavidW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |