Ludvig Holberg

Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), the great Enlightenment man of letters of Denmark and Norway, wrote Niels Klim’s Underground Travels (1741), a Latin satirical novel in which its hero falls through the Earth into a hollow world of rational tree-people and topsy-turvy societies. A landmark of the subterranean-world and satirical-utopia traditions, it is a genuine ancestor of philosophical science fiction.