Book Riot shares what happens when authors tap into history and science fiction.

Historical fiction and science fiction might at first seem like completely antithetical genres. After all, one looks to the past while the other looks toward the future. The origins of science fiction, though, are rooted in science and experiments and imagination: writers are always looking at the past and present to inspire their ideas about what might come about in the future. Even science fiction that was cutting edge at one time, like Jules Verne or Arthur C. Clark, now seem rooted in the historical ideas that inspired them to think about the future at that time. Science fiction, then, will always become enmeshed in history eventually. But what about science fiction that actually explores history or reimagines it?