Pierre Gallet 1 hr 40 min read

A visitor from the Moon arrives in Paris at the close of the eighteenth century, and turns his outsider's eye on the customs, follies, and manners of Revolutionary-era France.

Pierre Gallet's 1803 book is a satirical utopian and social-SF fantasy. Witty, pointed, of its era. Read it for a charming post-Revolutionary French satire in the venerable 'visitor from another world' tradition, a lunar traveler's bemused survey of earthly society used to skewer the absurdities of the age, a delightful artifact of early speculative fiction, here in the original French.

In its time

Published in 1803, during the 1800s, the gothic and the first scientific romances.

Reading it

1 hr 40 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).