NOVEL THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY

Philosophical fiction was not specifically new. Plato's dialogues were embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic is an early illustration of a Utopia. Ibn Tufail's twelfth century Philosophus Autodidacticus with its Tale of the human outcast surviving on an island, as well as the 13th century response by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactus