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For questions about the history of the genre: the origin and evolution of ideas in speculative fiction. Example topics include the first work of speculative fiction with a particular property, or the origin of a term or trope.
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What is the earliest work to have a species deliberately falsify its level of technology?
Around the same time-frame as @Spencer's answer, the Lensman series by E. E. Smith, the first novel (Triplanetary) of which was published in 1948, but initially serialized in 1934, has not just one, b …
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Which was the first fictional work to bring up the concept of giant bugs?
Another answer might be Herodotus' Histories (~430 BC), which mention gold-digging ants (not the size of humans though), and are:
...and in this desert and sandy tract are produced ants, which are in …
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Which was the first fictional work to bring up the concept of giant bugs?
R. E. Raspe's satirical Baron Von Munchausen has several adventures involving large insects, though they aren't major plot points typically. These first of these stories was published in 1785.
In tha …
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What was the first SF Story to feature Time Police?
H Beam Piper's first Paratime series in appeared in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine in 1948, starting with He Walked Around the Horses and also from the same year Parallel Time Tracks, which is an …
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First story to deal with increased human intelligence?
I don't know that this is exactly gain of intelligence as the protagonists are extremely intelligent in the first place, but the "Arcot, Morey and Wade" series by John W Campbell Jr. involves the thre …
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Earliest avian aliens in sci fi
These don't count as alien, but are certainly works of fantasy featuring birds that are sapient:
Note that in many early European myths/legends (e.g. Norse myths) birds have their own language which t …
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Who was the first Chosen One in sci-fi/fantasy?
To add some other examples that might fit -
Lensmen (E.E. "Doc" Smith), specifically Virgil Samms and the "Children of the Lens" - these are both the product of a centuries long planned breeding prog …
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Which Sci-Fi work introduced the concept of speed-based time travel?
I'm not sure that it entirely answers the question, but Invaders of the Infinite by John W Campbell, published in 1961 (though title page says earlier version is 1932), has its heroes travel in time d …
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What's the first example of fairies being divided into Summer and Winter Courts?
This may only be a partial answer, but you could possibly trace it to the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades, specifically the Rape of Persephone (rape as in the Greek "raptus" - "carried off"; from w …
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Earliest story w/ Earth still divided into nations but space travel regulated by single a no...
I think the concept of a united non-national space control is a fairly old trope; there are many stories from earlier SF with planetary councils and united (planetary) systems, which wouldn't necessar …
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What was the earliest reference to turnover maneuvers for constant-boost spaceships?
I'm not sure it was the first, but The Skylark of Space by E.E. "Doc" Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby, published (in serial in Amazing Stories) in 1928 mentions having to flip the space-ship over to slow …
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