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    <title>Histoire comique des états et empires de la lune. English</title>
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    <namePart>Cyrano de Bergerac</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1619-1655</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Page, Curtis Hidden</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1870-1946</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Lovell, Archibald</namePart>
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  <abstract>"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.)</abstract>
  <note>Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comical_History_of_the_States_and_Empires_of_the_Moon</note>
  <note>Release date is 2014-08-10</note>
  <note>Produced by Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive)</note>
  <note>Original publication data not identified</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Space flight to the moon -- Fiction</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Moon -- Fiction</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Science fiction, French -- Translations into English</topic>
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  <identifier type="lccn">99001262</identifier>
  <identifier type="uri">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46547</identifier>
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