Writing in the second century, the Syrian-Greek satirist Lucian sends a ship of travellers into the sky, where they find the King of the Moon at war with the King of the Sun, and later swallow them in a whale. Henry Morley’s edition gathers the True History, the dialogue Icaro-Menippus, and Lucian’s essay on how history ought to be written.
Often called the earliest surviving science fiction, and still very funny about liars, philosophers and travellers’ tales. Download the free EPUB.