The sole century is now over as science regains hegemony of the fringe, reincorporating fiction as science fiction in the manner which superstition was object of serious consideration by its luminaries throughout until the end of the Victorian era, when the schism between them widened increasingly and irrationally.
The new models on space and time as well as astronomical, biological, anthropological, among numerous other, the development of quantum mechanics and nanotechnology, all amassed to a boiling point which stretches continuously any credulity in the impossible, turning it into mere improbable, without rejecting a proven status beforehand.