Categories of literature do not share the limitations of human genetics. The wide range of literature we ascribe to Science Fiction is so vast that it can hardly be winnowed down to any set of parents, nor does it need to be. While all humans are bound by a strict genetic limit of one father and one mother, Science Fiction has grown and developed from multiple fathers and mothers. However, general consensus regarding the ancestry of Science Fiction is that it had predominantl

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) As reluctant as Dorian himself was to look at his own picture,...