Lucian's masterpiece. Two books of fantastical voyages — to the Moon, inside a whale, to the Island of the Blessed. He warns the reader at the start: everything in this book is a lie. The ancestor of science fiction.
Start ReadingLucian sails beyond the Pillars of Heracles into pure fantasy — his ship is swept to the Moon, where he finds himself conscripted into an interplanetary war between the King of the Moon and the King of the Sun.
After escaping the belly of a whale the size of an island, Lucian visits the Island of the Blessed and meets Homer, then continues through increasingly absurd adventures that parody every travel narrative ever written.