It’s James W. Harris doing the considering, actually:
The Time Machine is the big bang origin of the science fiction universe. I’ve read The Time Machine a couple times before in my life, but I never noticed that it was the origin of all science fiction before, but then I haven’t spent the last decade rereading the classics of science fiction before either. On this third reading, this time via audio book, it seemed quite obvious that The Time Machine is the first science fiction novel.
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