01920cam a22003853u 4500 46547 UtSlPG 20260610134052.0 m cr n 260607r2014||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 99001262 UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Cyrano de Bergerac, 1619-1655 Histoire comique des états et empires de la lune. English A Voyage to the Moon Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2014 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comical_History_of_the_States_and_Empires_of_the_Moon Release date is 2014-08-10 Produced by Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive) "A Voyage to the Moon" by Cyrano de Bergerac is a satirical novel published posthumously in 1657. Considered one of the earliest science fiction stories, it follows a narrator named Cyrano who attempts multiple flights to reach the Moon's civilization. Through encounters with four-legged inhabitants, the ghost of Socrates, and another space traveler, he engages in philosophical dialogues that challenge beliefs about God, immortality, and the human soul. The novel features an early description of rocket-powered spaceflight. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Space flight to the moon -- Fiction Moon -- Fiction Science fiction, French -- Translations into English Page, Curtis Hidden, 1870-1946 Lovell, Archibald https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46547 87386 87386