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| | Honoré de Balzac, The Centenarian, or, The Two Beringhelds |
 | | Although he later denied its authorship, both his personal records and those of the publisher make it quite clear that he wrote the book. |
 | | Professors Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser, who translated the text into English (and wrote the introduction, as well as translators' notes, an extensive essay on French science fiction, endnotes, and an afterword), provide sufficient evidence to support this assertion, and I recognize enough of Balzac's style in it so that I couldn't disagree. |
 | | Professors Chatelain and Slusser base this argument in large part on Isaac Asimov's definition of science fiction, that it is "literature that registers the impact of scientific and technological advancement on human beings" (xxi in this book, from Asimov on Science Fiction, published by Doubleday in 1985). |
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