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Philosophical fiction was not precisely new. Plato's dialogues had been embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic is really an early example of a Utopia. Ibn Tufail's twelfth century Philosophus Autodidacticus with its Tale of the human outcast surviving on an island, along with the 13th century reaction by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidac