Scientific romance is an archaic name for what is now known as the science fiction genre. Scientific romance is generally held to have started with Jules Verne's novel Journey to the Center of the Earth.

The term scientific romances, however, is generally associated with H.G. Wells, as he used this to describe many of his novels before the advent of the science fiction genre.

Today, the term may also be used to refer to a subgenre within science fiction, of works which specifically romanticize or focus on science or technology, often in homage to or in the style of the early scientific romances. Compare with the planetary romance subgenre, in which an essential feature of the work is the discovery or exploration of a planet.

Bibliography

• From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
• The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
• The Ablest Man in the World by Edward Page Mitchell
• The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard
• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

See also

• Edisonade
• Voyages Extraordinaires

Science fiction genres

Mokslinis romanas