You can roll your eyes all you want at the aliens and spaceships and dimension-hopping shenanigans of classic science fiction. You can deride sci-fi as "genre" writing, and you can choose to read only ...

Before the spaceship, there was the submarine. Before 'Star Trek' mapped the final frontier, Captain Nemo was already gliding through the ocean’s depths in his magnificent vessel, the 'Nautilus'. When ...