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For centuries, humans have looked up at the stars and dreamed. It's only in recent centuries, though, that we began turning those dreams into stories. These stories, often called science fiction, are filled with remarkable visions of distant worlds, strange creatures, and futuristic technology. The roots of science fiction trace back to the 1600s with works by Johannes Kepler and Francis Godwin about voyages to the moon. Some argue that modern science fiction began with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in 1818, as it was one of the first novels to explain events using science rather than mysticism. Today, science fiction is…