Nearly two millennia before Jules Verne and H. G. Wells started writing about science fiction, Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian satirist, and rhetorician, introduced the world to science fiction, envisioning a future where humankind would find alien life, take place in interplanetary warfare, and come to know artificial life among other things.

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Here's an Ancient Novel About Aliens, UFOs, and Robots Written in the 2nd Century — Curiosmos

During the second century AD, a writer called Lucian of Samosata wrote about traveling to the moon, alien life, ufos, robots and artificial intelligence.