Lucian of Samosata

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The very first sci fi, written at the height of people making stuff up and prtending it was history (looking at you, Herodotus). Nice to see the art of the spoof is so old...From the wiki:A True Story (Ancient Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata;...

Gazing at the Moon

Gazing at the Moon

Collected here are six tales that span nearly two thousand years, from a Roman citizen writing a satire of the ‘historical’ literature of his time in 182 AD to Edgar Allan Poe exploring the idea of a scientific ascent to the moon in 1835. Humanity...

Trips to the Moon

Trips to the Moon

The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon wonder, Lucian first condemned in his Instructions for Writing History, and then caricatured in his True...