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Hi John! Cho told me you were working on something interesting … 😊                                                                                

Hi Julia, yes, that’s right, on the link between science and sci-fi

Perhaps I can be of assistance …? I’ve taken a class of history of literature specializing in sci-fi

Sounds interesting, we might be able to use that 😏

Yes, I was thinking, perhaps it makes sense to look at predictions that already have come true?

Not exactly what we are looking for, but it might be good to have as supplementary materials

OK, so, you sometimes see Frankenstein as the first sci-fi book, but actually sci-fi is much older …

Indeed, I’ve seen that claim a lot in the materials I’ve been looking at

Well, it might depend on how you define and classify things, but     

there’s already androids and empires at war in space in ancient greek literature

flying machines and mechanical birds in India, entire mechanical cities and a robot horse in Arabia

Whoa, hold your horses! That is a lot! 🤗 Yes, I get why you thought this was relevant

Great! These aren’t exactly futuristic predictions however …             

Indeed, so that makes it a bit harder to take up in this piece … but …

But?  🤔                                                                                                       

maybe send me something on ancient science fiction and we’ll see about a supplementary article

Wow, thank you! I will certainly do that!  😊                                         

It would be really great if you can link it up with actual science somehow …😊

I’ll try to do that. Actually there’s quite a few ancient books on mechanical devices and programmable automata

They even had something like an animatronic theater and … vending machine

Now that is cool! 😊 That’s the type of things we’re looking for: anticipations of recent technology

I’ll get to work then!😊                                                                              

Thanks for contacting me, I look forward to your article.