A Voyage to the Moon: New Translation (Alma Classics 101 Pages): Cyrano de Bergerac

by Andrew Brown (Translator), Andrew Brown (Translator), Andrew Brown (Translator), Cyrano de Bergerac (Author)

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  Paperback
  2019

  $8.72

  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.