Read Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World: The First Sci-Fi Novel Written By a Woman (1666)
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The Blazing World was first published in 1666 and is often considered a forerunner to both science fiction and the utopian novel genres...
It's a totally bonkers story of a woman who is stolen away to the North Pole only to find herself in a strange bejeweled kingdom of which she becomes the supreme Empress...
Read at Open Culture
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