Listen to the dialogue and complete the sentences in your workbook.0:03
What are you reading, Ron?0:06
This book is a collection of science fiction stories.0:08
I prefer classical literature and science fiction seems to me to be too modern.0:15
What are you talking about?0:21
Science fiction has very deep roots.0:23
Even in ancient times, poets made up stories about traveling to strange faraway lands, many meeting strange people and witnessing strange customs.0:25
Ok, but those were not truly science fiction stories.0:35
I know what you mean.0:38
Epic poems like Homer's Odyssey, am I right?0:40
Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe, wrote about worlds and the moon.0:46
In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the main character meets people from the flying island of Laputa.0:51
And these are only very few examples, Defoe and Swift lived so long ago, in the 17th and 18th centuries.0:58
Have you got any more recent examples?1:04
The American writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story of the Journey to the Moon in which, as he said, he tried to be as scientific as possible.1:08
A couple of years ago I read some books by Jules Verne, to the Centre of the Earth and 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.1:16
They are true science fiction, aren't they?1:24
Herbert George Wells also wrote about travels to the Moon.1:26
One of his books is called the First Men on the Moon.1:30
But my favorite novel by him is the Invisible man, where he writes about the power of science and the fact that it should not be separated from society.1:33
And still, modern science fiction is different from all those books we've just mentioned.1:42
I agree that in a way it's different, but not entirely different, because modern science fiction has grown out of those books by those great authors.1:47
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