A Voyage to the Moon
Author(s): Cyrano de Bergerac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator (called, like the author, Cyrano de Bergerac), after a failed first attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally makes it into space and to his desired destination using the more scientific means of a rocket-powered craft. After landing, he discovers four-legged creatures whose nourishment is smoke and whose currency is poetry and encounters the ghost of Socrates.
Published posthumously and intended mainly as a satire of its age, this imaginative and entertaining tale - here presented in a lively translation by Andrew Brown - is now considered one of the pioneering works of science fiction.
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- : Alma Classics
- : Alma Classics
- : 0.01
- : 24 September 2019
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Special Fields
- : Cyrano de Bergerac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
- : Paperback
- : 1909
- : English
- : 128