page_title: Timeline of science fiction
section_title: 10th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of science fiction / 10th century
caption_attribution_description: Image from The Japanese Fairy Book
context_page_description: This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as
  travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.
caption: In an illustration from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the Moon Princess flies back to her home on the Moon.
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