American science fiction literature and Serbian science fiction film : when worlds don’t even collide

Recently, at a conference 1 , my colleague Dr. Savica (pronounced Savitza) Toma, a professor of German literature here at the University of Kragujevac, Serbia, made a remark which I now find very useful.The polemics was about basic categories into which all literature could be divided, such as realistic and fantastic.He said, essentially, this: If we are to be able to work at all, in literary studies, we must have some basic categories, as tools, and for orientation; and so, even if they are not perfect and absolute, they are needed and useful.In that spirit, I proceed.On this planet, science fiction genre began in the year 1818, with the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.That was the first SF novel