The real Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, freethinker and wit, sends his narrator to the moon and then to the sun by a series of ingenious and absurd machines, from bottles of dew to rockets. On each world he meets beings whose customs mock French religion, philosophy and society. Richard Aldington’s translation includes an introduction separating the man from the legend.
A founding text of science fiction and a daring satire of its age, ancestor to Swift and Voltaire. Download the free EPUB.