Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, “The Description of a New World Called the Blazing World”, 1666 was a science-fiction novel conjoined with the nonfiction “Observations on Experimental Philosophy”. The two conjoined books were responses to Robert Hooke, “Micrographia”, 1665. Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, “The Description of a New World Called the Blazing World”, has as its invention the “microscope” in the storyline description of “Blazing World”. This is an utopian science fiction by a female writer, and earlier science-fiction than Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”, 1818. Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, “The Description of a New World Called the Blazing World”, 1666 might be the first science fiction novel.
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