Science Fiction Influences

 Firstly I would like to write a tribute to The Great Pioneers of Science Fiction.
If it were not for these legends there would be no genre that is named Science Fiction. (FBA is short for Fulfillment by Amazon. )

Firstly I would like to honour H.G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. 

He wrote memorable classics such as:

    The Time Machine

    The War of the Worlds

    The Island of Doctor Moreau

    The Invisible Man

No tribute would nor should exclude Jules Verne 

Jules Gabriel Verne 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905 who was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.

Other Influencers in my desire to write Science Fiction are:

Mary Shelly

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction and one of her best-known works.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.

H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. King Solomon's Mines and She are the two books of his I loved most.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, and opposition to totalitarianism. Orwell produced literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical, I loved 1984 and Animal Farm.

C.S.Lewis

 Clive Staples Lewis FBA (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963 being a Christian myself I have read The Scew Tape Letters although I have not read Mere Christianity (It is on my reading list) and I loved his The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings. Which I have not read but watched the movie multiple times.

John Bunyan

John Bunyan was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. Bunyan, I have read a lot of his works.