Description: Science fiction was being written throughout the 17th- and 18th-centuries, but it underwent a rapid expansion of cultural dissemination and popularity at the end of the 19th- and beginning of the 20th-century. This 'Element' explores the ways this explosion in interest in 'scientific romance', that informs today's global science fiction culture, manifests the specific historical exigences of the revolutions in publishing and distribution technology. H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and others science fiction writers embody in their art the advances in material culture that mobilize, reproduce and distribute with new rapidity, determining the cultural logic of 20th-century science fiction in the process.

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