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The Man in the Moone

27.09.2025 · AE550927
One of the earliest space-travel tales in English literature. Domingo Gonsales reaches the Moon using trained geese. Describes lunar inhabitants and societies with utopian curiosity. Reframes divine ascent as mechanical flight — from miracle to method. Echoes Kepler’s *Somnium* but replaces demons with invention. Marks the shift from celestial myth to speculative science fiction.
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The Engine

05.11.2025 · AE551105
"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 upward and upward, till I could no longer discern the Earth..."