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Scientific romance is a bygone name for what is now commonly known as Science Fiction . The term is most associated with the early science fiction of the United Kingdom , and the earliest noteworthy use of the term ''scientific romance'' is believed to have been by Charles Howard Hinton in his 1886 collection. The term can, however, also refer to early science fiction from several other nations as well, in particular the works of French writers such as Jules Verne and Camille Flammarion . or, much more often, by biological factors inherited from our ape ancestors. Nonetheless, not all British science fiction from that period comports with Stableford's thesis. Some, for example, reveled in adventures in space and held an optimistic view of the future. By the 1930s , there were British authors (such as Eric Frank Russell ) who were intentionally writing "science fiction" for American publication. At that point, British writers who used the term "scientific romance" did so either because they were unaware of science fiction or because they chose not to be associated with it. After World War II , the influence of American science fiction caused the term "Scientific Romance" to lose favor, a process accelerated by the fact that few writers of Scientific Romance considered themselves "Scientific Romance" writers, instead viewing themselves as "just writers"--or, on occasion, scientists--who occasionally happened to write a Scientific Romance. Even so, the Scientific-Romance era writers' influence persisted in British science fiction, and indeed had some impact on the American variety. The term has had a revival of sorts. Starting in the late 1970s , it began to be used again, this time for eccentric, usually (but not always) British science fiction that intentionally reflects a Victorian or Edwardian outlook. Christopher Priest (a member of the H. G. Wells Society ) has, for example, used or alluded to the term "scientific romance" in some of his novels. The contemporary use of the term also includes authors who, like the original "Scientific Romance writers", do not consider themselves to be science-fiction or scientific-romance authors. English historian Ronald Wright , for instance, wrote the Wells Pastiche (or Homage ) ''A Scientific Romance: A Novel.'' {Link without Title} The modern use of the term might superficially seem related to the rise of the ". REFERENCE
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