TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cyrano de Bergerac
AU  - Aldington,Richard
TI  - Voyages to the Moon and the Sun
T2  - Broadway translations
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Space flight to the moon -- Fiction
KW  - Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800
KW  - French fiction -- 17th century
KW  - Satire, French
KW  - Cyrano de Bergerac, 1619-1655
KW  - Authors, French -- 17th century
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comical_History_of_the_States_and_Empires_of_the_Moon; Release date is 2024-07-10; Introduction: The legend of Cyrano. The life of Cyrano. Cyrano's friends. The libertin question. The works of Cyrano -- Voyage to the moon -- Voyage to the sun -- Appendices: Extracts from Godwin, D'Urfey, and Swift. Bibliography. Genealogy. Coat of arms; Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.); Originally published; London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1923
N2  - "Voyages to the Moon and the Sun" by Cyrano de Bergerac is a satirical novel published posthumously in 1657. The narrator, also named Cyrano, attempts multiple flights to reach the Moon and discover its civilization. After crashing in New France and surviving a rocket-powered launch, he encounters four-legged inhabitants who communicate in musical notes, value large noses, and include the ghost of Socrates. Through philosophical dialogues, the travelers challenge fundamental beliefs about God, immortality, and the human soul. Considered one of the earliest science fiction stories, it features the first description of rocket-powered spaceflight. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001794261
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74000
ER  -