Best Science Fiction Books: Inspiring Innovations in Science and Technology

Below are ten of the top science fiction books which inspired the imagination of many scientists and engineers to either embark on a particular project that has proven useful to man or even as a basis for their entire careers. How so? Literature serves as a way to capture the experiences and fantasies of people such that even if present conditions or historical precedent may deem it impossible for man to achieve such feats as the following, the mere act of writing about it puts people in a mindset that it could actually be achieved even in a fictional situation, which became the inspiration of scientists, mathematicians and engineers to work hard until we were actually able to achieve it in the best science fiction books even if it took us years or decades to do so:

1. walking on the moon
2. discovering evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial beings
3. manipulating the state of human and animal bodies
4. seeing planets thousands or even millions of light years away
5. being able to discover what makes up for the deepest recesses of the oceans and the earth

Below are some of these books which is taken from a list of top science fiction books nominated by avid science fiction readers. Take note that the year of publication is given to highlight the fact that the book was able to foresee aspects of science that will not be available until much later:

1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 1870. This book was able to anticipate submarine warfare and already mentioned scuba diving and the taser. Its author, Jules Verne wrote some of the earliest wokrs which can be categorized as science fiction even though the genre itself will not become a part of popular culture until a good 60 years thereafter.
2. The Time Machine, 1895. This book popularized the idea that time travel can be possible through scientific and technological methods instead of the magical means grounded more on fantasy than actual fact. It also preluded the idea of a universe with multiple dimensions through its description of time travel in a universe with four dimensions.