Cyrano de Bergerac 2 hr 37 min read

A traveler contrives to fly to the Moon and finds it a whole inhabited world, where he debates philosophy, physics, and religion with its strange, upside-down society.

Cyrano de Bergerac's 1657 'Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon' is a foundational, wildly imaginative work of proto-science fiction and satire. Witty, bold, centuries ahead of its time. Read it for one of the earliest and greatest voyages to the Moon, a freethinking classic that helped invent the genre.

In its time

Published in 1657, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

2 hr 37 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Albert Robida