Shipwrecked off Burma, the young American Joseph Atterley meets a learned Brahmin who knows of a metal that repels the earth. Together they build a machine and travel to the moon, where the Lunarians of Morosofia display follies of science, fashion, politics and philosophy that look remarkably like ours.
One of the earliest American works of science fiction, by a Virginia professor who taught at Jefferson’s university. Download the free EPUB.