Lucian's TRUE HISTORY | Book Preview
Preview TRUE HISTORY by Lucian with curated quotes from the book (as translated by H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler in 1905).
📜 True History is a novella written in the second century AD by the Greek author Lucian of Samosata. The title has also been translated as "A True Story".
It is the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare. It has been described as "the first known text that could be called science fiction".
Links to the full work:
➡️ Full Text (free)
https://monadnock.net/lucian/history....
➡️ Full Text with Notes (free)
http://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/dok...
➡️ Amazon US (ebook)
https://www.amazon.com/True-History-D...
➡️ Project Gutenberg (free)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45858
(as translated by Francis Hickes circa 1630)
More links:
➡️ Goodreads
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➡️ A True Story on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_...
➡️ Lucian of Samosata (author):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian
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