Descendants (at least 8 branches originate here)
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Renaissance to 19th century
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Destination 1: The Moon
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Somnium
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A witchcraft invocation within a book within a dream — nested speculation. Journey to the Moon seen through "Demon's" eyes. Somnium manuscript leaked: Kep
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Gulliver’s Travels
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A voyage through impossible worlds to expose human absurdity. Each land a mirror — scale, reason, and custom turned upside down. Laputa’s scientists
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Micromégas
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A cosmic satire on scale, knowledge, and human vanity. Blends Enlightenment rationalism with speculative cosmology. Micromégas — a giant from Siriu
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The Man in the Moone
One of the earliest space-travel tales in English literature. Domingo Gonsales reaches the Moon using trained geese. Describes lunar inhabitants and societies w
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The Engine
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"Having fastened about a dozen of my strongest Gansas unto a kinde of Engine I had framed, after they had raised me from the ground, they continued soaring upwa
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L’An 2440
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An Enlightenment dream of Paris six centuries in the future. Imagines social reform through reason, education, and moral progress. First modern utopia set in a
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Activation
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Think about different means how You could put / get Your self on the surface of the moon.