Other Worlds (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Savinien de Cyrano De Bergerac
- First Published: 1657
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cosmic voyage
- Time of Work: The mid-seventeenth century
- Setting: France, Quebec, the Moon, and the Sun
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Space flight or travel, Seventeenth century, Canada or Canadians, Moon or moons, Sun
- Locales: France, Quebec, Canada, Moon, Sun
The Plot
These two novels of space travel (often referred to by scholars by the titles A Voyage to the Moon and A Voyage to the Sun) first appeared in print in 1657 in editions prepared for publication by Father Henri Lebret. For more than 250 years after his death, Cyrano de Bergerac was considered a rather incompetent novelist, but the discovery in the early years of the twentieth century of two manuscript versions of A Voyage to the Moon revealed that Father Lebret systematically had eliminated almost all passages critical of politics and religion. All...
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