There they find themselvesĮmbroiled in a full-scale interplanetary war between the king of the MoonĪnd the king of the Sun over colonization rights to Jupiter, involving armies Through the Pillars of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar), are lifted upīy a giant waterspout and deposited on the Moon. That he launches into a tale of a group of adventurers who, while sailing The concluding sentence of the preface to his True History reads: "I give my readers warning, therefore, not to believe me." And with Of science fiction – he parodies the kind of feeble fantasy that hadīecome popular.
Satirical mill and in his two extraterrestrial stories – precursors Way to shallow novels of adventure or romance. Was in decay, and the great literature of Greece at its height had given When faith in the old gods had all but evaporated, Greek culture and thought Lucian's parents had hoped he might become a sculptor, however he made aįortune by traveling around Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, and other lands givingĮntertaining speeches, before settling down in Athens to study philosophy. In his Vera Historia ( True History) he provides all the necessary elements of space-travel fiction: a trip through space, a landing on another world, a description of that world, and a return. Lucian was a Syrian-Greek writer, sophist, and satirist responsible for the first fictional accounts of extraterrestrial
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