Theme: British fantasy fiction in the 20th century.(J. K. Rowling) Contents: Introduction

Conclusion
The next great science fiction writers after H. G. Wells were Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950), whose four major works Last and First Men (1930), Odd John (1935), Star Maker (1937), and Sirius (1944), introduced a myriad of ideas that writers have since adopted, and J.-H. Rosny aîné, born in Belgium, the father of "modern" French science fiction, a writer also comparable to H. G. Wells, who wrote the classic Les Xipehuz (1887) and La Mort de la Terre (1910). However, the Twenties and Thirties would see the genre represented in a new format. Robert Hugh Benson wrote one of the first modern dystopias, Lord of the World (1907).

Rudyard Kipling's contributions to science fiction go beyond their direct impact at the start of the 20th century. The Aerial Board of Control stories and his critique of the British military, The Army of a Dream, were not only very modern in style, but strongly influenced authors like John W. Campbell and Robert Anson Heinlein, the latter of whom wrote a novel, Starship Troopers, that contains all of the elements of The Army of a Dream, and whose Stranger in a Strange Land can be compared to The Jungle Book, with the human child raised by Martians instead of wolves. Heinlein's technique of indirect exposition first appears in Kiplings' writing. Heinlein, the central influence of all science fiction from the 1930s forward, has also described himself as influenced by George Bernard Shaw, whose longest work Back to Methuselah (1921) was itself science fiction.

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1^ Barbini, Francesca T. (14 May 2015). "The Epic of Gilgamesh & SF Origins". Sci-fi and Fantasy Network.

2^ Scholes, Robert; Rabkin, Eric S. (1977). "1. A Brief Literary History of Science Fiction". Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision. London: Oxford University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-502174-5.

3^ Vas-Deyres, Natacha; Atallah, Marc. "Pierre Versins et L'Encyclopédie de l'utopie, de la science-fiction et des voyages extraordinaires (1972)".

4^ Andrews, Steve (2006). 100 must-read science fiction novels. Nick Rennison. London: A. & C. Black. p. xv. ISBN 978-1-4081-0371-5. OCLC 191696087.

5^ Mukunda, H.S.; Deshpande, S.M.; Nagendra, H.R.; Prabhu, A.; Govindaraju, S.P. (1974). "A critical study of the work "Vymanika Shastra"" (PDF). Scientific Opinion: 5.

6^ Gibbs, Laura. "Revati". Encyclopedia for Epics of Ancient India.