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A cosmic satire on scale, knowledge, and human vanity.
Blends Enlightenment rationalism with speculative cosmology.
Micromégas — a giant from Sirius, eight leagues tall, traveling the universe in search of wisdom.
Encounters microscopic humans on Earth — astonishment reversed.
Anticipates first-contact narratives: beings of reason meeting beings of ignorance.
The universe as laboratory for humility...
Voltaire: the 1st one to introduce the alien perspective, the 1st one to "play it big".