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Credit: Albert Robida
Scientific romance is an archaic term for the genre science fiction, and now refers to the science fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, primarily that of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle. This illustration, from the french book Le Vingtième Siècle ("the Twentieth Century"), depicts a nineteenth-century conception of life in the twentieth century.