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GENRE Sci Fi Authors Predict the Future
Informational text, such as Long ago, computers, fax machines, and
this magazine article, gives facts satellites seemed impossible. There was not a
and examples about a topic. hint or a rumor that they could ever be a part
of our lives. Yet now we use them every day.
TEXT FOCUS They were first dreamed up not by engineers,
but by science fiction writers. Jules Verne was
Photographs and a writer who could concentrate on amazing
illustrations are used in ideas. In 1863, he published an early science
both fiction and nonfiction fiction book, Five Weeks in a Balloon. Since
selections to show events or then, people have been impressed by how
important details or to support the genre can predict the future. Many
information. predictions, like time travel, are not possible
in the real world. But sometimes machines
first dreamed up by writers do become real.
In this drawing from Verne’s From the Earth to
the Moon, a crowd watches in suspense as the
space capsule is prepared to take off.
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