(Incorrect) Post by New York Times Books With Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback, H.G. Wells invented the genre of science fiction. (Correct) Post by Mame-Fatou Niang When Mary Shelley wrote #Frankenstein in 1818 (aged 19), neither Jules Verne, nor Welles were born yet (Allan Poe was 9). A teenage girl wrote what is still considered today the 1st science fiction novel. This article continues the long tradition of erasing her.