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Many fiction genres can be traced to a small number of important or extremely popular literary works written before that genre came into existence.

" Genre " fiction is portrayed as those works that seek, in some degree, just to emulate these paradigms.

Science fiction began with Jules Verne and then H. G. Wells, as a recognizable genre, although Mary Shelley is generally credited with having written the first science fiction novels ( Frankenstein and The Last Man ) forty-five years before Jules Verne and H. G.

Wells ' first literary works.

Horror stories and mystery stories can both be traced in large measure to Edgar Allan Poe and a few others.

It is possible also that Poe helped originate science fiction with such stories as ' The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall.