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It is somewhat derivative of Gulliver’s Travels, which came before and more clearly qualifies:
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<div class="">On May 30, 2020, at 12:55 PM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font size="4" class="">Although fantasy stories are much older I think Voltaire's 1752 "Micromegas" may be one of the first true Science Fiction stories
ever written; I just finished reading it, listening to it actually, and it's really very good and doesn't sound like it's 268 years old. You can get it for free if you're on Audible.</font>
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