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I softened the wording about Lucian’s True History being the only surviving earlier science fiction work , as this is debatable. Somnium (1608) is classified by some as science fiction, as is The Blazing World (1666) and there are even those who argue Gulliver’s Travels (1726) is at least proto-science fiction. While the status of these works as science fiction is debatable, so too is the status of True History. I have therefore made this into an explanatory note.
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One of the [[UrExample first known]] ScienceFiction stories, released in 1752. The only known surviving example that's older stories [[note]]Due to the subjective nature of what is and isn't science fiction, there is debate about what should be considered the earliest science fiction story. Some consider Lucian's ''Literature/TrueHistory''.
''Literature/TrueHistory'' in the second century to be the earliest story which should be classified as science fiction [[/note]]., released in 1752.
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I deleted Artistic Licence Space because being in space with no spacesuit is Batman Can Breathe In Space.
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: Micromegas is able to jump from one asteroid to another without any protection.
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* BizarreAlienPsychology: Averted. Despite there being alien races of vastly different technological levels and life spans, they all seem to be dissatisfied with what they have.
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* CallAHumanAMeatbag: The Saturnian repeatedly calls the humans "insects" because of their small size.
* CasualInterstellarTravel: Without any aid of technology as it seems.
* CasualInterstellarTravel: Without any aid of technology as it seems.
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* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: Subverted. Micromegas is a giant alien from an extremely advanced civilization, but he himself believes in God and calls the even more sophisticated and long-lived species he encountered "mortal".
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* ProtagonistTitle: Also a OneWordTitle and {{Portmantitle}}.
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* ShapedLikeItself: "Nature is like nature. Why look for comparisons?"
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* ShapedLikeItself: "Nature is like nature. Why look for comparisons?"comparisons?".
* ShiplessFasterThanLightTravel: Without any aid of technology as it seems.
* ShiplessFasterThanLightTravel: Without any aid of technology as it seems.
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* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: Micromegas is a giant alien from an extremely advanced civilization, but he himself believes in god and calls the even more sophisticated and long-lived species he encountered "mortal".
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* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: Subverted. Micromegas is a giant alien from an extremely advanced civilization, but he himself believes in god God and calls the even more sophisticated and long-lived species he encountered "mortal".
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: In a case of ScienceMarchesOn, Micromegas is able to jump from one asteroid to another without any protection.
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: In a case of ScienceMarchesOn, Micromegas is able to jump from one asteroid to another without any protection.
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* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Micromegas speaks about god and studied at some jesuit collages on this planet, but it's never explained how Christianity came to be on earth and on Sirius without the two planets ever interacting before the story.
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* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Micromegas speaks about god God and studied at some jesuit collages Jesuit colleges on this planet, but it's never explained how Christianity came to be on earth Earth and on Sirius without the two planets ever interacting before the story.
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* HigherTechSpecies: The Siriusians have figured out interstellar space travel without using any technology. Seems to be either SufficientlyAdvancedAlien or ScienceMarchesOn
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* HigherTechSpecies: The Siriusians have figured out interstellar space travel without using any technology. Seems to be either SufficientlyAdvancedAlien or ScienceMarchesOn
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* ScienceMarchesOn: What you expect from Science Fiction from the 18th century.
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* NoIntelligentLifeHere: Micromegas and his Saturnian companion debate whether or not Earth could possibly have intelligent life. Before they discover a boat full of philosophers, they consider it doubtful.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: It is difficult to determine whether the author is lampooning or simply reproducing the flavor of contemporary scientific discourse.
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* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Speaking French]]: Micromegas and his Saturnian companion have no problems talking to humans when they first meet them.
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* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Speaking French]]: AliensSpeakingEnglish: Micromegas and his Saturnian companion have no problems talking to humans when they first meet them. They first learn to speak French by listening in on them.
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* FirstContact: The UrExampleUrExample. Micromegas meets Saturnians for the first time, and he and his Saturnian companion meet humans for the first time.
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* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: SaturniansSaturnians are from Saturn.
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* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Saturnians live 500 revolutions around the sun, which, as the author notes, translates to about 15,000 years.
** Given that Saturn needs 29.457 years for one revolution around the sun, this would make exactly 14728.5 years.
** Given that Saturn needs 29.457 years for one revolution around the sun, this would make exactly 14728.5 years.
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* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Saturnians live 500 revolutions around the sun, which, as the author notes, translates to about 15,000 years.
**years. Given that Saturn needs 29.457 years for one revolution around the sun, this would make exactly 14728.5 years.
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One of the [[UrExample first known]] ScienceFiction stories, released in 1752. The only known surviving example that's older is Lucian's Literature/TrueHistory.
''Literature/TrueHistory''.
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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: In a case of ScienceMarchesOn, Micromegas is able to jump from one asteroid to another without any protection.
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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: ArtisticLicenseSpace: In a case of ScienceMarchesOn, Micromegas is able to jump from one asteroid to another without any protection.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: The Saturnians have 72 senses, the Siriusians have almost 1000.
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* BizarreAlienSenses: The Saturnians have 72 senses, the Siriusians have almost 1000.
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One of the [[UrExample first known]] ScienceFiction stories, released in 1752. The only known surviving example that's older is Lucian's Literature/TrueHistory.
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** Given that Saturn needs 29.457 years for one revolution around the sun, this would make exactly 14728.5 years.
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** Given that Saturn needs 29.457 years for one revolution around the sun, this would make exactly 14728.5 years.years.
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* GotTheWholeWorldInMyHand: Apparently, Micromegas had encountered beings big enough to do that literally.
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* Lilliputians: What the humans are to the Saturnians and Siriusians. Together, the three races speculate there may be even smaller races.
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* Lilliputians: {{Lilliputians}}: What the humans are to the Saturnians and Siriusians. Together, the three races speculate there may be even smaller races.
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* OurGiantsAreBigger: Saturnians are 6,000 feet tall, Siriusians measure 20,000 feet.
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* OurGiantsAreBigger: Saturnians are 6,000 feet tall, Siriusians measure 20,000 120,000 feet.
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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: In a case of ScienceMarchesOn, Micromegas is able to jump from one asteroid to another without any protection.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: When Micromegas travels from planet to planet by jumping, he doesn't seem to have any problems with breathing.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: When Micromegas travels from planet to planet by jumping, he doesn't seem to have any problems with breathing.
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* CasualInterstellarTravel: Without any aid of technology as it seems.
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* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Micromegas speaks about god and studied at some jesuit collages on this planet, but it's never explained how Christianity came to be on earth and on Sirius without the two planets ever interacting before the story.
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* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: Micromegas is a giant alien from an extremely advanced civilization, but he himself believes in god and calls the even more sophisticated and long-lived species he encountered "mortal".
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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: The different races of Aliens have similar sciences and philosophies to each other and to us and like to talk about them with other races.
* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Speaking French]]: Micromegas and his Saturnian companion have no problems talking to humans when they first meet them.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: While the other planets are not exactly earth-like and the peoples living there are long-lived giants, they all are similar enough that everybody is able to survive on other planets without a space suit and talk to the local people.
* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Speaking French]]: Micromegas and his Saturnian companion have no problems talking to humans when they first meet them.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: While the other planets are not exactly earth-like and the peoples living there are long-lived giants, they all are similar enough that everybody is able to survive on other planets without a space suit and talk to the local people.
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Saturnians have 72 senses, the Siriusians have almost 1000.
* BizarreAlienPsychology: Averted. Despite there being alien races of vastly different technological levels and life spans, they all seem to be dissatisfied with what they have.
* CallAHumanAMeatbag: The Saturnian repeatedly calls the humans "insects" because of their small size.
* BizarreAlienPsychology: Averted. Despite there being alien races of vastly different technological levels and life spans, they all seem to be dissatisfied with what they have.
* CallAHumanAMeatbag: The Saturnian repeatedly calls the humans "insects" because of their small size.
* FirstContact: The UrExample
* HigherTechSpecies: The Siriusians have figured out interstellar space travel without using any technology. Seems to be either SufficientlyAdvancedAlien or ScienceMarchesOn
* HumanAliens: The Saturnians and Siriusians are giants, but otherwise, they seem to resemble humans. At least, they for sure have hands and fingers like us and are at least HumanoidAliens.
* HumansAreFlawed: But the other aliens are just as dissatisfied with their own flaws as we are with ours.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes
* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Despite (or maybe because of their size), the aliens are not spotted when they visit earth, so they seem to cause little distruction.
* Lilliputians: What the humans are to the Saturnians and Siriusians. Together, the three races speculate there may be even smaller races.
* LittlePeople: What the Saturnians are to the Siriusians.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: While only Siriusians, Saturnians and humans appear, Micromegas often mentions how many different peoples and races on different planets he has visited.
* MistookTheDominantLifeform: At first, the aliens think whales are not only the dominant, but the only lifeform on earth because everything else is to small for them to see.
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Saturnians
* HigherTechSpecies: The Siriusians have figured out interstellar space travel without using any technology. Seems to be either SufficientlyAdvancedAlien or ScienceMarchesOn
* HumanAliens: The Saturnians and Siriusians are giants, but otherwise, they seem to resemble humans. At least, they for sure have hands and fingers like us and are at least HumanoidAliens.
* HumansAreFlawed: But the other aliens are just as dissatisfied with their own flaws as we are with ours.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes
* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Despite (or maybe because of their size), the aliens are not spotted when they visit earth, so they seem to cause little distruction.
* Lilliputians: What the humans are to the Saturnians and Siriusians. Together, the three races speculate there may be even smaller races.
* LittlePeople: What the Saturnians are to the Siriusians.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: While only Siriusians, Saturnians and humans appear, Micromegas often mentions how many different peoples and races on different planets he has visited.
* MistookTheDominantLifeform: At first, the aliens think whales are not only the dominant, but the only lifeform on earth because everything else is to small for them to see.
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Saturnians
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted. The Saturnian is repeatedly called a dwarf because he is much smaller than the Siriusian Micromegas, but he is still 6,000 feet tall and fits none of the usual dwarven tropes.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Saturnians are 6,000 feet tall, Siriusians measure 20,000 feet.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Saturnians are 6,000 feet tall, Siriusians measure 20,000 feet.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: What you expect from Science Fiction from the 18th century.
* ShapedLikeItself: "Nature is like nature. Why look forcomparisons?"comparisons?"
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Siriusians are able to travel through interstellar space by hopping on comets and planets.
* SuperiorSpecies: Played with. The Siriusians are more sophisticated and long-lived than the Saturnians, who in turn are more long-lived and sophisticated than the earthlings, but there is always a race that knows more and lives longer, and none of them are perfectly happy with their lives.
--> "I believe it," said Micromegas, "for on our planet we have almost 1,000 senses; and yet we still have a kind of vague feeling, a sort of worry, that warns us that there are even more perfect beings. I have traveled a bit; and I have seen mortals that surpass us, some far superior. But I have not seen any that desire only what they truly need, and who need only what they indulge in. Maybe someday I will happen upon a country that lacks nothing; but so far no one has given me any word of a place like that."
* TurtleIsland: When Micromegas picks up the human ship on his finger, the humans think they ran aground on a rock.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Saturnians live 500 revolutions around the sun, which, as the author notes, translates to about 15,000 years.
** Given that Saturn needs 29.457 years for one revolution around the sun, this would make exactly 14728.5 years.
* ShapedLikeItself: "Nature is like nature. Why look for
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Siriusians are able to travel through interstellar space by hopping on comets and planets.
* SuperiorSpecies: Played with. The Siriusians are more sophisticated and long-lived than the Saturnians, who in turn are more long-lived and sophisticated than the earthlings, but there is always a race that knows more and lives longer, and none of them are perfectly happy with their lives.
--> "I believe it," said Micromegas, "for on our planet we have almost 1,000 senses; and yet we still have a kind of vague feeling, a sort of worry, that warns us that there are even more perfect beings. I have traveled a bit; and I have seen mortals that surpass us, some far superior. But I have not seen any that desire only what they truly need, and who need only what they indulge in. Maybe someday I will happen upon a country that lacks nothing; but so far no one has given me any word of a place like that."
* TurtleIsland: When Micromegas picks up the human ship on his finger, the humans think they ran aground on a rock.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Saturnians live 500 revolutions around the sun, which, as the author notes, translates to about 15,000 years.
** Given that Saturn needs 29.457 years for one revolution around the sun, this would make exactly 14728.5 years.
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* OneWordTitle: Also a ProtagonistTitle and {{Portmantitle}}.
* ProtagonistTitle: Also a OneWordTitle and {{Portmantitle}}.
* {{Portmantitle}}: Also a ProtagonistTitle and OneWordTitle, as the footnote says:
--> From micros, small, and from megas, large. B.
* ProtagonistTitle: Also a OneWordTitle and {{Portmantitle}}.
* {{Portmantitle}}: Also a ProtagonistTitle and OneWordTitle, as the footnote says:
--> From micros, small, and from megas, large. B.
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* EarTrumpet: Micromegas makes one to communicate with what he sees as insects:
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--> he briskly took out a pair of scissors with which he cut his fingernails, and from the parings of his thumbnail he improvised a kind of speaking-trumpet, like a vast funnel, and put the end up to his ear.
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More as I read the book.
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The [[UrExample first known]] ScienceFiction story.
Creator/{{Voltaire}}'s ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30123 Micromégas]]'' tells the story of a philosopher, Micromégas, who is exiled from his home planet and visits first Saturn, then Earth.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: It is difficult to determine whether the author is lampooning or simply reproducing the flavor of contemporary scientific discourse.
* PunyEarthlings: The narrator often mentions in passing how large and long-lived the aliens are.
* ShapedLikeItself: "Nature is like nature. Why look for comparisons?"
Creator/{{Voltaire}}'s ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30123 Micromégas]]'' tells the story of a philosopher, Micromégas, who is exiled from his home planet and visits first Saturn, then Earth.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: It is difficult to determine whether the author is lampooning or simply reproducing the flavor of contemporary scientific discourse.
* PunyEarthlings: The narrator often mentions in passing how large and long-lived the aliens are.
* ShapedLikeItself: "Nature is like nature. Why look for comparisons?"
